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 1Dzlxu-0006iU-Hg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 01:53:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j721q5sY006647; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 01:52:05 GMT Received: from a.mail.sonic.net (a.mail.sonic.net [64.142.16.245]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j721mYMC008714 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 01:48:35 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.22] (209-204-170-165.dsl.static.sonic.net [209.204.170.165]) (authenticated bits=0) by a.mail.sonic.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j721mmfC022025 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 18:48:48 -0700 Message-ID: <42EED10D.3020300@sonic.net> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 18:49:01 -0700 From: Raymond Lillard User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050728) 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 (SOLVED) 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: a8dce3d9-6ef9-4bb9-a501-7fcfa57e423b X-Archives-Hash: 5a02a0c57f580d472320c504e5f9329d Raymond Lillard wrote: > 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". For the record, I needed to understand the QA phases in Portage. The discussion in the thread led me to: 1. Create the file: /etc/portage/package.keywords Containing: # Allow test versions of Samba to be visible net-fs/samba ~x86 2. Further info under: URL: http://packages.gentoo.org/ Search for: Samba Found discussion among Portage maintainers that suggests 3.0.14a could be marked stable any day now. Thanks for the help. Ray PS My installation of Gentoo in on a Dell Latitude D810. This is a fairly fast machine with a really nice display. Gentoo has been both very user responsive and stable. I have not had any sign of instability, unlike some other distros I could (but won't) name. I have built most all of the popular office applications and many of the sysadmin apps with NO issues. The Gentoo team seems to run a tight ship and I like it. It feels like a BSD system. I haven't gotten to the audio/video stuff yet. I'm optimistic though. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list