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