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

[Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu>]

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.
Brandon

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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 the
> portage 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 
> ith
> 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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