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| 7 | <h1 class="head0">Appendix D. Downloading Samba with CVS</h1>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <p>In <a href="ch02.html">Chapter 2</a> we showed you how to download the
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| 11 | latest stable version of Samba published by the Samba developers. For
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| 12 | most purposes (including virtually all production servers) this
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| 13 | procedure will meet your needs. However, sometimes you might want to
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| 14 | run a version of Samba that includes the latest bug fixes and
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| 15 | features, maybe for research and testing purposes, or just to see
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| 16 | what the Samba developers have been up to lately.</p>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <p>The Samba team keeps the latest updates of the Samba source code in a
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| 19 | <a name="INDEX-1"/><a name="INDEX-2"/>Concurrent Versions System
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| 20 | (CVS) repository. CVS is a freely available
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| 21 | <a name="INDEX-3"/>configuration management tool
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| 22 | and is distributed under the GNU General Public License. You can
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| 23 | download the latest copy from <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">http://www.cvshome.org/</a>. The Samba team
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| 24 | describes various ways to access its CVS repository at <a href="http://www.samba.org/samba/cvs.html">http://www.samba.org/samba/cvs.html</a>.</p>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <a name="samba2-APP-D-NOTE-162"/><blockquote class="note"><h4 class="objtitle">WARNING</h4>
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| 27 | <p>Although the CVS code contains the latest features, it also contains
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| 28 | the latest bugs and sometimes won't even compile
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| 29 | properly! If you prefer a less "bleeding
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| 30 | edge" release, try looking in the
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| 31 | <em class="filename">alpha</em> and <em class="filename">pre</em> directories
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| 32 | on the Samba FTP server. The <em class="filename">alpha</em> directory
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| 33 | contains alpha releases, and the <em class="emphasis">pre</em> directory
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| 34 | contains (usually more stable) prerelease versions. (See <a href="ch02.html">Chapter 2</a> for information on downloading via FTP.) Alpha
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| 35 | releases might be a little behind the latest CVS code, but are less
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| 36 | buggy and usually compile properly on the more common Unix versions.</p>
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| 37 | </blockquote>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <p>One of the nicest things about CVS is its ability to handle remote
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| 40 | logins. This means that people across the globe on the Internet can
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| 41 | download and update various source files for any project that uses a
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| 42 | CVS repository. Such is the case with Samba. Once you have CVS
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| 43 | installed on your system, you must first log in to the Samba source
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| 44 | server with the following command:</p>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <blockquote><pre class="code">$ <tt class="userinput"><b>cvs -d :pserver:cvs@pserver.samba.org:/cvsroot login</b></tt></pre></blockquote>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <p>When you are prompted for a password, enter <tt class="literal">cvs</tt>.
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| 49 | You are connected to the CVS server at
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| 50 | <tt class="literal">pserver.samba.org</tt>. Once you are connected, you can
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| 51 | download the latest source tree with the following command:<a name="FNPTR-1"/><a href="#FOOTNOTE-1">[1]</a></p>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | <blockquote><pre class="code">$ <tt class="userinput"><b>cvs -z5 -d :pserver:pserver@pserver.samba.org:/cvsroot co samba</b></tt></pre></blockquote>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <p>This downloads the entire Samba distribution (file by file) into a
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| 56 | directory called <em class="filename">samba</em>, created in your current
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| 57 | directory. The <em class="filename">samba</em> directory has the same
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| 58 | structure as the Samba source distribution described in <a href="ch02.html">Chapter 2</a>, except that it has additional directories
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| 59 | named <em class="filename">CVS</em> throughout the source tree. These
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| 60 | directories are used by CVS to store information about each file in
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| 61 | the source tree and how to update them. After the download is
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| 62 | completed, you can follow the instructions in <a href="ch02.html">Chapter 2</a> to configure, compile, and install your new
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| 63 | Samba release.</p>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <p>The Samba developers typically update the Samba source code one or
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| 66 | more times per day. Whenever you want to catch up to the latest
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| 67 | changes, simply <em class="emphasis">cd</em> to the
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| 68 | <em class="filename">samba</em> directory and run the following command:</p>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | <blockquote><pre class="code">$ <tt class="userinput"><b>cvs update -d -P</b></tt></pre></blockquote>
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| 71 |
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| 72 | <p>Each time you do this, you will need to reconfigure, recompile, and
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| 73 | reinstall to update your installation as we showed you in <a href="ch02.html">Chapter 2</a>.</p>
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| 74 |
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| 75 | <hr/><h4 class="head4">Footnotes</h4><blockquote><a name="FOOTNOTE-1"/>
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| 76 | <p><a href="#FNPTR-1">[1]</a> The <tt class="literal">-z</tt> option causes the transfer to be made
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| 77 | in GNU gzip compressed format and requires the
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| 78 | <em class="filename">gzip</em> program to be installed on your system to
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| 79 | work. If you do not have <em class="filename">gzip</em>, omit the
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| 80 | <tt class="literal">-z</tt> option.</p> </blockquote><hr/><h4 class="head4"><a href="toc.html">TOC</a></h4>
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