[nylug-talk] Debian Etch - Samba packages

[Michael Bubb]

Hello all -

Wanted to get some perspective from the list. Our company uses Debian for
Samba servers - recently we changed from 'stable' to 'testing' for our
platforms (not sure exactly why... one reason might be better support for
SATA) I am running into issues when instlling the samba and related
packages. Namely smbclient is looking for the stable version of
samba-common. I get the 'unsolved dependencies/ broken package' error

I went ahead and ran a stable package install:

apt-get -t stable install samba samba-common smbclient


and it installed. I am not sure if this was advisable - it seemed like the
best way to get it up and running.

Will I break it the next time I run apt-get upgrade?

Should I pin it in the /etc/apt/sources.lst?

What is a recommended way of managing this?

I have pasted the relevant output below.

Many thanks

Michael

PS Output


My kernel: 2.6.18-4-686


The original error:

server:~# apt-get install smbclient
 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree... Done
 Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
 requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
 distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
 or been moved out of Incoming.

 Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
 the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
 that package should be filed.
 The following information may help to resolve the situation:

 The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   smbclient: Depends: samba-common (= 3.0.14a-3sarge4) but 3.0.24-2 is
 to be installed
 E: Broken packages



The stable install:

beaker:~# apt-get -t stable install samba samba-common smbclient
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libcupsys2-gnutls10 libgnutls11 libreadline4 libtasn1-2
Suggested packages:
  gnutls-bin samba-doc smbfs
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libcupsys2 libtasn1-3-bin
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libcupsys2-gnutls10 libgnutls11 libreadline4 libtasn1-2 samba
samba-common smbclient
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 7608kB of archives.
After unpacking 18.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://mirrors.kernel.org stable/main libtasn1-2 0.2.10-3sarge1
[43.5kB]
Get:2 http://mirrors.kernel.org stable/main libgnutls11
1.0.16-13.2sarge2 [302kB]
Get:3 http://mirrors.kernel.org stable/main libreadline4 4.3-11 [140kB]
Get:4 http://mirrors.kernel.org stable/main libcupsys2-gnutls10
1.1.23-10sarge1 [75.2kB]
Get:5 http://mirrors.kernel.org stable/main samba-common 3.0.14a-3sarge4
[1988kB]
Get:6 http://mirrors.kernel.org stable/main samba 3.0.14a-3sarge4
[2523kB]

Get:7 http://mirrors.kernel.org stable/main smbclient 3.0.14a-3sarge4
[2536kB]

Fetched 7608kB in 43s (175kB/s)


Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 19476 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libcupsys2 ...
Removing libtasn1-3-bin ...
Selecting previously deselected package libtasn1-2.
(Reading database ... 19447 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libtasn1-2 (from .../libtasn1-2_0.2.10-3sarge1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libgnutls11.
Unpacking libgnutls11 (from .../libgnutls11_1.0.16-13.2sarge2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libreadline4.
Unpacking libreadline4 (from .../libreadline4_4.3-11_i386.deb) ...
Replaced by files in installed package readline-common ...
Selecting previously deselected package libcupsys2-gnutls10.
Unpacking libcupsys2-gnutls10 (from
.../libcupsys2-gnutls10_1.1.23-10sarge1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package samba-common.
Unpacking samba-common (from .../samba-common_3.0.14a-3sarge4_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: warning - unable to delete old directory `/var/run/samba':
Directory not empty
dpkg: warning - unable to delete old directory `/var/log/samba':
Directory not empty
dpkg: warning - unable to delete old directory `/var/cache/samba':
Directory not empty
Selecting previously deselected package samba.
Unpacking samba (from .../samba_3.0.14a-3sarge4_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package smbclient.
Unpacking smbclient (from .../smbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge4_i386.deb) ...
Setting up libtasn1-2 (0.2.10-3sarge1) ...

Setting up libgnutls11 (1.0.16-13.2sarge2) ...

Setting up libreadline4 (4.3-11) ...

Setting up libcupsys2-gnutls10 (1.1.23-10sarge1) ...

Setting up samba-common (3.0.14a-3sarge4) ...

Setting up samba (3.0.14a-3sarge4) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/samba ...
Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd.

Setting up smbclient (3.0.14a-3sarge4) ...



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