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

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

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu> wrote:

> 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



I know that nmap doesn't have kernel dependency. I was curios to know if the
tests of nmap on gentoo machines are done on machines with kernel vanilla
sources or gentoo-sources or hardened kernel or other.

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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 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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