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On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 23:26 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: |
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> Statux schreef: |
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> > Unmerge the BOINC from portage and download/manually install it from |
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> > the site. The version in portage is very old and for some reason, it |
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> > hasn't been updated. |
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> I haven't had time to try to figure out what to do about it (submit a |
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> bug, I suppose), but it's kinda left me hanging. I know I can perfectly |
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> well install the current version from the site, but I really don't want |
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> this program to be unmanaged by Portage (I don't so much like having |
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> "loose" apps; it's a "thing"), and I know better (since I live with a |
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> tester) than to install the version in Portage, because I have a sense |
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> of just how old it is and how very unlikely it is to work; there have |
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> been a lot of changes under the hood to BOINC lately. Which is why I |
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> find the situation so odd-- how is it that the maintainer has missed the |
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> very active development that's been going on?-- and I tend to be a bit |
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> more hesitant to mix into noticeably odd situations. |
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Actually it looks like it is being actively maintained. However, the |
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latest version in portage is in package.mask. Below is the entry: |
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# Marcus D. Hanwell <cryos@g.o> (05 Dec 2005) |
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# New version - initial testing |
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>=sci-misc/boinc-5.2.14 |
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Regards, |
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Paul |
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