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I'm new to Gentoo (old at Linux) and like what I see so far. |
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The only downside to Gentoo that I've found is that it takes |
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forever to compile everything. I do appreciate that my system |
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runs faster, it's just the price is two days and a fat pipe |
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to do a fairly complete install. Most binary installs take |
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me less than half of a day. I watched OpenOffice download |
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and compile for over six hours before I gave up and went to |
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bed. |
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Now on to my topic. I have noticed that the Samba version |
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presently available in Portage is v3.0.10. That version |
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was released more than six months ago. The latest released |
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version of Samba (v3.0.14a), which contains several important |
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bug fixes over v3.0.10, was released in mid-April. The next |
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release of Samba will be v3.0.20. It presently is in the |
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"rc" stage and will be released "real soon now". |
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Being new to Gentoo, I don't know what the typical lag time |
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between an upstream release and a Portage release is, but |
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from the looks of the packages I have installed, it seems |
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that Portage chases the upstream releases rather vigorously. |
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Is there some specific issue with Samba? |
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Has the Samba/Portage maintainer been unable to work on |
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this? Does he/she need assistance? |
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Should I just get v3.0.14a directly and maintain it outside |
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the Portage system? |
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I don't mind maintaining Samba outside of Portage, but before |
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I do so, I would like to understand the present situation. |
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Best, |
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Ray |
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