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From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:59:11 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sepc2x9s.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5874817.DvuYhMxLoT@cube> (Peter Humphrey's message of "Tue, 21 Jan 2025 11:14:49 +0000")

Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> writes:

> You misunderstand. I'm saying that the version change should be
> bigger, not just from -r1 to -r2. Perhaps 7.24.2? 7.25?

No, because those component numbers are specified by upstream - 
i.e. the BOINC project itself - not by Gentoo. But it's Gentoo 
that provides the OpenRC boinc.init and boinc.conf files - in the 
sci-misc/boinc/files folder of the Gentoo repository - not 
upstream. (If this were about files provided by upstream, rather 
than by Gentoo, an issue would need to have been raised with the 
BOINC project, not on the Gentoo bug tracker.) It's not Gentoo's 
place to change version numbers of the software that Gentoo 
packages, but Gentoo _can_ indicate revisions of how specific 
versions of the software are packaged. That's what numbers like 
-r1, -r2, etc. indicate.

> Where on earth did you get that idea? I only said I couldn't see 
> what
> to do, and asked for help with it.

You wrote, as i quoted in my previous email:

> The scale of the changes proposed seems to me too big for such a
> minor revision bump, but more than that, it has several diffs 
> against
> separate files, and I'm not /au-fait/ enough with patching to 
> know
> what to do with them all.
>
> Would anyone here like to have a go at it?

You didn't write:

> what to do with them all, and I need someone to explain it to
> me. Would anyone here like to have a go at it?

or

> what to do with them all. Would anyone here like to have a go at
> explaining to me what I need to do?

and so i read "it" as referring to the scale of the changes 
proposed being too big, and that you were asking for someone else 
to put together a patch - particularly because people who need 
help with something related to a bug report they've opened usually 
ask for that help on the bug report itself, rather than asking for 
help in some other venue.


Alexis.


  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-21 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-14 11:28 [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update Peter Humphrey
2025-01-14 12:01 ` Michael
2025-01-14 16:31   ` Peter Humphrey
2025-01-14 12:36 ` Arve Barsnes
2025-01-14 14:18 ` Michael Orlitzky
2025-01-14 16:28   ` Peter Humphrey
2025-01-14 16:53     ` Michael Orlitzky
2025-01-15 11:50       ` Peter Humphrey
2025-01-20 13:24         ` Peter Humphrey
2025-01-20 23:40           ` Alexis
2025-01-21 11:14             ` Peter Humphrey
2025-01-21 11:59               ` Alexis [this message]
2025-01-21 12:45                 ` Michael
2025-01-30 15:50                 ` Peter Humphrey
2025-01-30 15:47           ` Peter Humphrey
2025-01-31  2:53             ` Alexis
2025-01-31 14:24               ` Peter Humphrey
2025-01-31 14:34                 ` Peter Humphrey

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