Re: ambiguity about nmap results

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

That's why I don't use debian or ubuntu or the like. gentoo is really
great, but not for everyone. It requires some sophistication, willing
to invest the time.

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:17 PM, DePriest, Jason R.
<jrdepriest () gmail com> wrote:
> Debian is worse, much worse.  Both the test and unstable branches have
> 4.53-3 as the latest.
>
> Stable is listed as 4.11-1!  According to the nmap changelog, that was
> "stable" on 2006/06/23, coming close to two years ago.  Nmap is so
> much better than it was back then!
>
> Ugh.  I just roll my own.
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Brandon Enright <> wrote:
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> > "sara fink" <sara.fink () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > on my laptop I have nmap version 4.60 from gentoo portage.
> > > 4.62 appears as non stable in portage.
> >
> > The Gentoo arch/~arch model (as well as most other distributions notion
> > of stable/unstable) typically doesn't match the Nmap development cycle.
> >
> > For Nmap it is generally the case that x.z is /more/ stable and better
> > tested than x.y when z > y.
> >
> > At least for nmap, you probably should add
> >
> > # Networking (or ~x86, etc)
> > net-analyzer/nmap ~amd64
> >
> > to /etc/portage/package.keywords
> >
> > I love Gentoo but don't expect the devs and package maintainers to make
> > the best decisions for your particular usage case.
> >
> > Brandon
> >
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