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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: SOLVED Re: [gentoo-user] ATLAS@home and VirtualBox
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 10:41:49 +0100
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On Tuesday 03 May 2016 18:47:39 Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> On Tue, 03 May 2016 09:56:29 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote:

--->8

> > 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.

Okay, thanks.

> Looks like your problem comes from broken rsync mirror with outdated
> ChangeLog files.

No, I see it now: 'equery c boinc' returns the ChangeLog section that refers 
to the currently installed version, not to any earlier or later ones. If I 
know what later versions are available I can do something like "equery c 
=sci-misc/boinc-7.6.31" but I hadn't done so until just now.

What's happened, I think, is that the init script change introduced into the 
latest version has been silently back-ported to the previous version. That's 
why I didn't see it in the ChangeLog, and it explains why I didn't get it 
during routine updates - only when I uninstalled the package and reinstalled 
it.

A learning point has emerged here: it's dangerous to specify a version in 
package.keywords.

I can't say I'm delighted to have spent three weeks in fruitless bug 
chasing, just because of an undocumented change that had already fixed my 
problem behind my back. At least I understand what's going on now. Thanks 
for your help, Andrew.

-- 
Rgds
Peter