On Monday 20 January 2025 23:40:22 Greenwich Mean Time Alexis wrote: > Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> writes: > > On Wednesday 15 January 2025 11:50:02 Greenwich Mean Time I > > > > wrote: > >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/948143 > > > > That bug now has a patch, which proposes to move from > > sci-misc/boinc-7.24.1-r1 to -r2. 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? > > Well, as the person who submitted that patch, i'd like to comment > on this.
--->8 > So: > > * The move from -r1 to -r2 is required because a revision change > is required when there any changes to an ebuild, including to > Gentoo-provided files, that don't come from upstream. This in > turn requires a new ebuild file, which makes up a significant > amount of the patch. You misunderstand. I'm saying that the version change should be bigger, not just from -r1 to -r2. Perhaps 7.24.2? 7.25? > * There are small changes to the boinc.conf and boinc.init files, > which i consider to be the minimum required to address the > suggestions that were made. OK. > Specifically: --->8 > i find your post here quite odd, discouraging, and an example of > why i'm increasingly disinclined to devote so much time to > volunteer ICT work, - that i would instead be better served by > increasing my other volunteer work in other areas, where my > experience is of people's gratitude rather than of > entitlement. Rather than being appreciative of someone > volunteering to take on the work, and rather than asking > clarifying questions on the bug itself about what you don't > understand, you've written a post on a public list effectively > dismissing my work, assuming that it's fundamentally wrong. Okay > then. Where on earth did you get that idea? I only said I couldn't see what to do, and asked for help with it. -- Regards, Peter.
