help me fill bug report? found and fixed a big in package

picarica · Guru Joined: 11 Aug 2018 Posts: 346

hello so i got intel gpu and i needed intel-compute-runtime, couldnt merge newest version so i started digging first i started forum post here with no answers so i asked here and i found the issue

so i just changed

John R. Graham · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2025 12:13 pm Post subject:

The developers will do the change to the repo for you—and it looks like you got their attention. Good job! Also, your bug report looks fine. One suggestion. It's easier to understand your changes if, rather than posting a new ebuild, you post a patch that produces the new ebuild from the old ebuild. You could create the patch with:

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 23273

picarica · Guru Joined: 11 Aug 2018 Posts: 346

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 23273

I quoted your specific question of wondering why Portage picked 22.7.0 over 22.6.0, and answered that question. I am not disputing the need for the change.

If you are installing a ~amd64 version of compute-runtime, how were you not already using a ~amd64 version of gmmlib as a result of general system updates? Did you pull compute-runtime into an otherwise stable system?

picarica · Guru Joined: 11 Aug 2018 Posts: 346

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 23273

The initial response from sam_ looks like general triage to me. He was not specifically taking responsibility to work on it, only trying to get you to provide enough information that when the right person looks at the bug report, everything will be available for that person to start work immediately.

I note you provided a full replacement ebuild. The general guidance on bug reports requesting an ebuild modification is to provide a diff, so that the maintainer can readily see what you are changing.

As to how long it takes, that depends entirely on the availability of the volunteers responsible for this package. I know the Gentoo project tries to retire people who have done no work over a span of months, but the responsible party could be doing other work that keeps his commit privileges active, while not working on your specific problem, or he could be the type that puts in one weekend a month, and that weekend hasn't come up yet. I see the name of the assignee, but I cannot recall anything about that person's work schedule. As of my last git fetch, that person had not been committed changes since November:

logrusx · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2018 Posts: 2876

The slot dependency operator := means that if gmmlib gets rebuilt, then intel compute should get rebuilt. You should have not removed it, just updated the version.

More information: https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/#slot-dependencies

Best Regards,
Georgi