Graham Murray wrote:
Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


Are we really far behind?  That's difficult to believe.  For what
packages specifically?  Do you know how to unmask unstable packages
(marked M or M~ at packages.gentoo.org)?


ipsec-tools. The current upstream 'release' is 0.6, and 0.6.1 is at
release candidate. The latest in portage is 0.5.2.

That's unfortunate.  I guess none of the gentoo devs happen to be particularly 
interested in a version bump on that package.  Oh well, most of them probably 
don't get paid for the work they do on gentoo, so who can blame them?  Having 
more developers would help, but there will always be packages suffering from 
lack of developer interest.

Usually with version bumps, you can just copy the existing ebuild into your 
overlay and rename it (see portage docs for PORDIR_OVERLAY).  There is a 
version bump ebuild for ipsec-tools attached to bug 100692:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100692

Zac
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