Re: upgrading to latest samba

[maya%netbsd.org@localhost]

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:22:37AM +0000, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> My Windows 10 box has decided to stop talking to my NetBSD boxes over
> samba, so I am trying to upgrade to the most recent version.  But:
>  
> %pkg_add -U -U samba-4.6.8nb5
> pkg_add: Package `samba-4.6.8nb5' conflicts with `tdb-[0-9]*', and
> `tdb-1.3.3' is installed.
> pkg_add: 1 package addition failed
> 
> Is this a regexp/glob thing?   I tried updating tdb first, but that
> failed too.
> 
> -- 
> Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>
> 

not justifying the behaviour, just explaining what is happening (maybe a
better behaviour can be done):
samba(3.*) depends on tdb
samba4 has builtin tdb and explicit CONFLICTS on tdb.

so if samba and tdb are removed, samba4 can be installed without
complaints from pkg_ tools.