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Re: when the new version will appear in gentoo portage?
From: Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 06:31:48 +0000
I'm not sure what you mean regarding the kernel source version requirement. Nmap is portable enough that it doesn't have a kernel version dependency. I've been running 2.6.26 kernels with Nmap with great success due to some new features and bug fixes with the e1000e driver.
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On Feb 1, 2009, at 6:20, sara fink <sara.fink () gmail com> wrote:
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 theportage picking it up in the ~arch trees. I'm sure Michał Januszews ki, Raúl Porcel, and other Gentoo devs are on this list and keeping up w ithreleases.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 managementvia 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 pickingand choosing the new features you want with the nice package managementoffered 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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- when the new version will appear in gentoo portage? sara fink (Jan 31)
- Re: when the new version will appear in gentoo portage? Brandon Enright (Jan 31)
- Re: when the new version will appear in gentoo portage? sara fink (Jan 31)
- Re: when the new version will appear in gentoo portage? Brandon Enright (Jan 31)
- Re: when the new version will appear in gentoo portage? sara fink (Feb 01)
- Re: when the new version will appear in gentoo portage? sara fink (Jan 31)
- Re: when the new version will appear in gentoo portage? Brandon Enright (Jan 31)