samba rename bug

[Lisa Kachold]

Hi Eric...

Great work!

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Eric Shubert<ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
> Back in March I created this bug report:
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6173

Wow, a bugzilla accolade is impressive <grin>.

> That was on samba-3.0.33, which is the current version on CentOS5. I was
> notified today that 3.0 is no longer under maintenance. As it turns out,
> 3.2.x (the version in FC10) is also out of maintenance. The current
> stable release of samba is 3.4.0, released 7/3/09. FC11 is on 3.3.x. I'm
> getting a clear picture of who's the tortoise and who's the hare. ;) I
> expect that FC12 will have samba-3.4.x.

Yes, you can verify that the branch of development for samba from that project.

Generally when Fedora (or Ubuntu) package a distro, they use the most
recent stable source at the time of the release.

> Anyway, I'm wondering if by chance anyone's running 3.3 or 3.4 and can
> verify whether this bug still exists or not. If it does, I had a patch
> for the 3.0 source that I'll look into reworking and submitting to the
> 3.4 (preferrably) or 3.3 branch.

More excellent work for PLUG-sters.

It's suggested that whoever test to verify also update Bugzilla in a
fine report (for posterity and to prove your development and debug
engineering).

> The bug is really easy to test. See the bug report. I just don't have a
> recent version of samba operational yet, and don't want to waste any
> time on it if the bug's been fixed.
>
> Thanks.
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'





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