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Re: when the new version will appear in gentoo portage?
From: Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:31:58 +0000
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:02:17 +0200 or thereabouts sara fink <sara.fink () gmail com> wrote:
Anyone knows when 4.85 will appear in gentoo portage?
Well, for one, it hasn't been released yet. From past experience though, these is generally a 1 to 3 day lag between a release and the portage picking it up in the ~arch trees. I'm sure Michał Januszewski, Raúl Porcel, and other Gentoo devs are on this list and keeping up with releases. The Gentoo (well, most distributions) notion of a testing and a stable branch just doesn't match up will with the rapid development cycle of Nmap. Nmap's, the "point-releases" are always _more_ stable than the major releases but that is rarely reflected in Portage. With Nmap though, I highly recommend you do your own package management via a portage overlay. This is actually a piece of cake and it allows you to easily maintain a local patch-set against the tree if you need to. I generally make a SVN snapshot and setup a new -r# released for the current Nmap and emerge that. This gives you the benefit of picking and choosing the new features you want with the nice package management offered to you by Portage. Brandon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmEw04ACgkQqaGPzAsl94LsPgCfeOQSCBB5tQxMN1UhKTmN8cvI DhAAoLjAp6jI1jrIQsMwQiKX9Y8kIZiv =h83l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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- when the new version will appear in gentoo portage? sara fink (Jan 31)
- Re: when the new version will appear in gentoo portage? Brandon Enright (Jan 31)
- Re: when the new version will appear in gentoo portage? sara fink (Jan 31)
- Re: when the new version will appear in gentoo portage? Brandon Enright (Jan 31)
- Re: when the new version will appear in gentoo portage? sara fink (Feb 01)
- Re: when the new version will appear in gentoo portage? sara fink (Jan 31)
- Re: when the new version will appear in gentoo portage? Brandon Enright (Jan 31)