From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DzjX6-0001Rd-4R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 23:17:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j71NFdl3012004; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 23:15:39 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.207]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j71NBpBn004971 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 23:11:52 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i23so920161wra for ; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:12:05 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FZ28LO9SHbZUvexy1v7XW3fzx1WrW2nZ74QEECrkukvHMCkU+WsUA9VMCHeUOJHaJ0KNzj2LU7dUrSliX6lyOkApP22Ib6+K/fn+WmzR2sDvMrLLZs4pjPWArc0KhO8jVQ7C6ZGU6ZbftiSUQiCSB8rTEFZiSLRCcz1IxVIIUA0= Received: by 10.54.37.1 with SMTP id k1mr3269212wrk; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.10? ([24.30.171.44]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 24sm4534182wrl.2005.08.01.16.12.04; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42EEAC71.2060303@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:12:49 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Stale Samba in Portage References: <42EEA8E1.50506@sonic.net> In-Reply-To: <42EEA8E1.50506@sonic.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ccca59d7-99e3-4756-8abe-64966d7ac255 X-Archives-Hash: cfa5418afc4e95b66d06acf2dde130ec Raymond Lillard wrote: > > I'm new to Gentoo (old at Linux) and like what I see so far. > The only downside to Gentoo that I've found is that it takes > forever to compile everything. I do appreciate that my system > runs faster, it's just the price is two days and a fat pipe > to do a fairly complete install. Most binary installs take > me less than half of a day. I watched OpenOffice download > and compile for over six hours before I gave up and went to > bed. > Many packages are offered as -bin packages such as openoffice-bin. You can alse use GRP packages (see handbook) or look at http://chinstrap.alternating.net/. > Now on to my topic. I have noticed that the Samba version > presently available in Portage is v3.0.10. That version > was released more than six months ago. The latest released > version of Samba (v3.0.14a), which contains several important > bug fixes over v3.0.10, was released in mid-April. The next > release of Samba will be v3.0.20. It presently is in the > "rc" stage and will be released "real soon now". > > Being new to Gentoo, I don't know what the typical lag time > between an upstream release and a Portage release is, but > from the looks of the packages I have installed, it seems > that Portage chases the upstream releases rather vigorously. > > Is there some specific issue with Samba? > > Has the Samba/Portage maintainer been unable to work on > this? Does he/she need assistance? > > Should I just get v3.0.14a directly and maintain it outside > the Portage system? > > I don't mind maintaining Samba outside of Portage, but before > I do so, I would like to understand the present situation. > > Best, > Ray > > You need to learn more about portage (read the portage manpage). mkdir /etc/portage echo "net-fs/samba ~*" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords emerge -av samba Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list