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

[Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu>]

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On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:02:17 +0200 or thereabouts sara fink
<sara.fink () gmail com> wrote:

> Anyone knows when 4.85 will appear in gentoo portage?
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.

The Gentoo (well, most distributions) notion of a testing and a stable
branch just doesn't match up will with the rapid development cycle of
Nmap.  Nmap's, the "point-releases" are always _more_ stable than the
major releases but that is rarely reflected in Portage.

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.

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.

Brandon

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