Re: [gentoo-user] Stale Samba in Portage (SOLVED)
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Stale Samba in Portage (SOLVED)
On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 18:49:01 -0700 Raymond Lillard wrote: I haven't gotten to the audio/video stuff yet. I'm optimistic though. So long as you look at the USE flags with a fine tooth comb you will find a lot of joy in the gentoo multimedia experience. It is (fortunately IMHO) not bogged down by the desire to keep clear of win32codecs, libdvdcss and the like. My gentoo system can play more media files than my win2k system, and without the annoyances of realplayer or quicktime popping up to tell me that I can now watch the latest piece of crap that they think i want to see. Anyway, my point was that, unlike some other distros where you have to hunt around for third party implementations in order to watch the dvd you own, or listen to an mp3, gentoo gives you the choice of including it right from inside portage. -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
