What is the best way to install Samba 3 on my Slack 9.1 install? Via the
Slackware packages or by compiling my own.

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Aaron Clausen
mightymartianca@hotmail.com

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> What is the best way to install Samba 3 on my Slack 9.1 install? Via the
> Slackware packages or by compiling my own.
>
There is no 'best way', at least not a general one that's best for
everyone.

When you build it your own, you build it exactly to your needs. You
include stuff you want, exclude stuff you don't. It's built against the
exact libraries present on your system at that time. You could add
patches, and optimise the binary and whatever else you can think of.
Then again, you might screw something up, include something that's not
entirely stable or accidently leave out something that you might need.

Using the official Slackware packages is definatly the 'safe' way, I
guess the decision depends on your definition of 'best'.

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On 2004-07-08, AC <mightymartianca@hotmail.com> wrote:
> What is the best way to install Samba 3 on my Slack 9.1 install? Via the
> Slackware packages or by compiling my own.
>


Like Bartosz says... the safest way is to go with the Slackware
packages.
If they do not give you things the way you want them the next best thing
would be to use the buildscript from the Slackware source tree. That way
you can upgrade before Pat does or fiddle with the configure.

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