Bug 468454

Summary:	sci-chemistry/gromacs-4.5.7 version bump
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Reinis Danne <rei4dan>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) <junghans>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	sci-chemistry
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472124
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Description Reinis Danne 2013-05-03 14:16:32 UTC

The tree version of Gromacs 4.5 series is nearly two years old. Recently there have been two releases for it.

http://repo.or.cz/w/gromacs.git/shortlog/refs/tags/v4.5.7

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-05-03 15:37:19 UTC

gromacs-4.6.1 is in the tree, so I don't really see the need to add 4.5.7.
If you really have to use 4.5 for scientific reason use 4.5.9999 from the sci overlay.

Comment 2 Reinis Danne 2013-05-03 15:57:49 UTC

So you expect stable users to use overlay for bugfixes? Really??

There are loads of fixes in 4.5.x and normally it is not advised to switch major versions in the middle of a project, so people are still using it. No, git versions are not an option if one wants to know precise version of the program at any given moment, not to mention added hassle jugling around masked packages.

I'm asking to reconsider this.

Comment 3 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-05-03 16:04:31 UTC

He is right. Such applications should be bumped with every revision.

Comment 4 Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-05-03 16:14:30 UTC

I am thinking of marking 4.6.1 stable soon and removing 4.5.x completely. Beside the fact that our 4.5.5 is heavily patched for QA reasons by alexxy and my guess is the patch won't apply anymore.

Comment 5 Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-05-03 17:07:51 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> I am thinking of marking 4.6.1 stable soon and removing 4.5.x completely.
> Beside the fact that our 4.5.5 is heavily patched for QA reasons by alexxy
> and my guess is the patch won't apply anymore.

You are in luck, patches still apply:
+  03 May 2013; Christoph Junghans <ottxor@gentoo.org>
+  +files/gromacs-4.5.7-cmake-cpp-asm.patch, +gromacs-4.5.7.ebuild:
+  added recent 4.5.x version (bug #468454)

So, somebody owes me a beer! Nevertheless 4.5.* will go when 4.6 is stable, which can still take some months.