Re: SOLVED Re: [gentoo-user] ATLAS@home and VirtualBox

[Andrew Savchenko]

Hi,

On Tue, 03 May 2016 09:56:29 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday 02 May 2016 11:16:28 I wrote:
>
> > The fix has already been done, silently - no outward evidence other than
> > the dates on a couple of files. I only found out when I compared a new
> > installation with what I'd backed up a few hours earlier.
>
> It seems there was a change-log entry, but I didn't see it. This is what I
> saw:
>
> $ equery c boinc
> *boinc-7.4.42-r1 (09 Sep 2015)
>
>   09 Sep 2015; Marius Brehler <marbre@××××××××××××××.de> -boinc-7.4.42.ebuild,
>   +boinc-7.4.42-r1.ebuild:
>   Switch to wxGTK 3.0, fixes bug #556670
>
>   Package-Manager: portage-2.2.20.1
>
>   24 Jan 2016; Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> metadata.xml:
>   Replace all herds with appropriate projects (GLEP 67)
>
>   Replace all uses of herd with appropriate project maintainers, or no
>   maintainers in case of herds requested to be disbanded.
>
>   24 Jan 2016; Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> metadata.xml:
>   Set appropriate maintainer types in metadata.xml (GLEP 67)
>
> What is the approved method of reading change-logs nowadays?

If you are using git sync, just go to /usr/portage/sci-misc/boinc
and run `git log .` there.

If you are using rsync sync, read end of the ChangeLog file, tail
-n 50 should do the job. 'equery c boinc' should work too.

Looks like your problem comes from broken rsync mirror with outdated
ChangeLog files. Also take into account that ChangeLogs are now
generated from git logs and this takes time, usually something
about an hour (maybe half an hour, I'm not sure).

Just tested on one of my systems using rsync, 'equery c boinc'
works fine. Make sure your app-portage/gentoolkit is up to date.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko