Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:40:06 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: <mi@aldan.algebra.com>, "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: <02e101c0c82e$9b67dd20$931576d8@inethouston.net> References: <200104181733.f3IHX1C36771@misha.privatelabs.com>
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Stop the arguing, Jordan already said he would be willing to delay the release over this to get the newer versions of samba (2.0.8 and 2.2.0) > > 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... It would require rebuilding all the packages because upgrading just samba would mess up the INDEX that its dependencies that would be looking for 2.0.7, but chill out, it looks like the newer versions of samba will make it into 4.3-RELEASE > 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... > I'm sure not how important it is either, but some people at the top seem to think its pretty important, including Jordan so we'll see what happens. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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