From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 1 18:37:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B635837B401 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 18:37:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gehicks@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net ([64.166.87.247]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0GFT000VOOIXTI@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 01 Jul 2001 18:37:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 18:37:31 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks Subject: Re: samba-2.2.0a.tgz for 4.2-RELEASE To: Moritz Schmitt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <3B3FD05B.77B3B63A@pacbell.net> Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc. MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Moritz Schmitt wrote: > > Hello, > > why isn't there the samba-2.2.0a.tgz package for 4.2-RELEASE on the FreeBSD > ftp machine? The package search engine finds it but it's a dead link. I only > can find the samba-2.0.7.tgz package... > > -Moritz > Hi Moritz, Why not just make the package yourself from ports? I actually prefer to build everything we use here from source whenever possible. As a bonus, there are times when you can actually get more functionality this way. It _is_ an open source revolution after all... -- W Gerald Hicks gehicks@pacbell.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message