Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:33:00 -0400 (EDT) From: mi@aldan.algebra.com To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, jedgar@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, asami@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/samba-devel Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/net/samba-devel/files patch-aa patch-af Message-ID: <200104181733.f3IHX1C36771@misha.privatelabs.com> In-Reply-To: <3ADDC746.F2C2E1CE@FreeBSD.org>
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On 18 Apr, Maxim Sobolev wrote: = mi@aldan.algebra.com wrote: = = > On 18 Apr, Will Andrews wrote: = > = On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:58:22AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: = > = > Great! Now, again, would it be possible to roll this into the = > = > 4.3 release? I can imagine people picking an OS based just on = > = > this... = > = = > = Nope. Ain't gonna happen. The 2.2.0 release came in a few hours = > = too late. There's nothing that'll help the situation now. = > = > Well, something was done for emacs ports... You let them in once :) = = Nope, emacs ports were *fixed*, while you are here proposing to *add* = a new port No. I'm proposing to *upgrade* an existing port. = while the freeze is over and bento is working hard crunching package = set. Please read Satoshi's message in the cvs-all list where he = explains why it couldn't be done. It could be done. It would just be very difficult and require a lot of work and, possibly, another ship-date slippage. But it *might* be worth it to help attract some users, who will have two packages (FreeBSD and some Linux distro) in a store trying to chose... I don't use Samba myself and don't know how important their latest release is exactly. From the Samba's press-release, it seemed important and I'd hate to learn that somewhere decisions were made to use some Linux distro over FreeBSD, because "it came with the latest Samba". I started this thread to get a quick discussion and, may be, attract Will's and Satoshi's attention to the new release. Don't jump at me... = > = Only thing we can do is ship 4.3R without the buggy Samba packages = > = and then refer people to "pkg_add -r" or ports for Samba 2.2.0. = > = > I can imagine some silly reviews with "unfortunately, the FreeBSD = > 4.3 did not come with the latest Samba release, so ..." :( = > = > -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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