Bugzilla Bug 151556

Latest stable version of boinc is 5.4.9 which is compatible with all boinc
projects. This version is incompatible with WorldCommunityGrid project, and the
only resolution this time is downgrade to 5.4.9 which is not in the portage. My
suggestion is to mask this version and force users to downgrade do latest
stable version 5.4.9.

I will take a look at this when I get the chance, but could do with more help.
Upstream don't seem to do proper source releases, it is not always very clear
what the latest stable and beta versions are so I tend to do snapshots as and
when I get time from CVS checkouts.

If you can point me to more reliable information - some packagers mailing list
perhaps? I would like to see them doing a source release for what they consider
a stable version so I can just download that tarball and package it ideally. It
would make keeping up with BOINC a lot easier, otherwise I could do with some
more help maintaining the Gentoo ebuilds for it.

Hopefully I will get more time to sit down with it soon but work pressures do
not give me a great deal of free time. If anyone else in the sci herd fancies
taking a look then please do. As this is just one project I would think those
interested in that project could package.mask 5.5.6 locally? I could add an
ewarn to the ebuild. I have other users asking for more recent versions for
functionality they think they need...

On the site http://boinc.berkeley.edu/compile.php you got everything about
compile process with dependecies repositories and so on.

Stable release has revision tag=stable

Example addres for stable release:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/boinc/?sortby=rev;logsort=rev;only_with_tag=stable


an exerpt from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/source_code.php:


Source code
You can get the BOINC source code in two ways:

    * Access the CVS repository directly, e.g. with a command like

      cvs -d :pserver:anonymous:@alien.ssl.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs/cvsroot
checkout boinc

      to get the development version, or

      cvs -d :pserver:anonymous:@alien.ssl.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs/cvsroot
checkout -r stable boinc

      to get the stable version.

    * Browse the boinc or boinc_samples modules via a web-based interface. This
is useful for getting individual files, or seeing the revision history. 
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/boinc/
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/boinc_samples/

At the moment i could not help you with providing ebuild but in near feature i
suppose i could find some time for it.

As i could propose solution for cvs dev versions. stop provide them as they are
not compatible with all projects so they are unusable as i wrote before.

I have added 5.4.11 which is the latest stable tagged version as of today in
CVS. I will be hard masking higher version numbers but I disagree with them
being of no use. As time permits I will keep these up to date concentrating on
the stable tagged version - poking me is permitted if they have been out for a
few days without me noticing.

Hopefully this version will work better for people, and those who want to use
the latest beta can unmask it. I wish they would use a more transparent
versioning scheme, release source tarballs for stable and may be announce their
release. I am going to see if there is anything I can do with getting a small
patch pushed I should have asked for ages ago.

Thanks for pointing this out anyway. Hopefully this is a reasonable solution
for everyone involved.