Re: [gentoo-user] Stale Samba in Portage

[William Kenworthy]

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge samba -s

Look at man emerge and the portage docs for what the above does, and how
to make it permanent.

Critical apps seem to take a bit longer to get to stable, but the above
will often get you a more updated version, albeit at a higher risk of
problems.

Check out portage overlay in the docs to see how to make your own
ebuilds for specific versions - you can often copy and adjust an
existing ebuild, pop it into the overlay and have the latest and
buggiest at your beck and call.  Note that this can also be used to keep
ancient versions around as well with a little more work.

Time: as a gentoo user you will find that a working definition of time
seems to change subtly ... over time ...

Lastly, dont forget to emerge sync regularly, and then run glsa-check
against your system to check for security updates.

BillK


On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 15:57 -0700, 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.
>
> 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
>
>
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