(excuse my english, I'm french)<br><br>On 8/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:reader@newsguy.com">reader@newsguy.com</a></b> &lt;<a href="mailto:reader@newsguy.com">reader@newsguy.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote">
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Something here is a bit confusing... I don't understand how renaming<br>one version of samba to another does much for me.&nbsp;&nbsp;I need the actual
<br>new version installed, not the old version renamed and installed as<br>the new version.</blockquote><div><br>Portage download the file samba-{the_version_in_the_name_of_the_ebuild}.<br>The ebuild file just contains commands and parameters to compile samba, it doesn't contain the source. Often, new versions don't need change in parameters/commands.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Unless something very magic happens at:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;# ebuild samba-3.0.23b.ebuild digest
</blockquote><div><br>The digest is just a security option (this create the md5 of the file).</div></div><br>-- <br>Julien Cabillot