Re: when the new version will appear in gentoo portage?

[sara fink <sara.fink () gmail com>]

Thank you, Brandon.

Well, for one, it hasn't been released yet.  From past experience
> though, these is generally a 1 to 3 day lag between a release and the
> portage picking it up in the ~arch trees.  I'm sure Michał Januszewski,
> Raúl Porcel, and other Gentoo devs are on this list and keeping up with
> releases.


I am aware of the ~arch aspect. I always emerge the ~nmap version, due to
this fact.


> With Nmap though, I highly recommend you do your own package management
> via a portage overlay.  This is actually a piece of cake and it allows
> you to easily maintain a local patch-set against the tree if you need
> to.


Indeed, I use portage overlay.

> I generally make a SVN snapshot and setup a new -r# released for the
> current Nmap and emerge that.  This gives you the benefit of picking
> and choosing the new features you want with the nice package management
> offered to you by Portage.


I"ll take this tip. ;-)
As a side note, I would like to know, based on which kernel sources and
version,  nmap for gentoo is compiled?

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