[gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 and git

[Patrick Lauer]

Ahoi,

I've been looking for a clean git-converted gentoo-x86 repo for ... well
... mostly data mining as cvs / anoncvs.g.o is too slow for some things.

This has been needlessly challenging, which confuses me a bit.

First, a little complaint:

There used to be some data at git-exp.overlays.gentoo.org, but that
machine has vanished. Ok, stuff happens, but that's not motivating.

Anoncvs.g.o is bouncing up and down a lot, so just getting the raw cvs
repo to do a local conversion is somewhere between needlessly hard and
impossible.

The gentoo-scm mailinglist has mostly fallen asleep, but even the stuff
discussed there doesn't seem to exist in a public repo that can be found
without telepathy skills.

So ... well ... if it's that hard to just find out the state of the last
experiments there won't be much contribution.

There is a git repository at https://bitbucket.org/lmnd/gentoo-x86 - but
(1) it has truncated history and (2) it diverges by >1500 files from
gentoo-x86 for the last week. So that's mostly useless for data mining.
(I haven't tried figuring out how it diverges, but raw ebuild count is
+1600 for "yesterday", so that's baad)

I'd appreciate it if people that worked on the conversion would point me
at the scripts and documentation they used; I'd appreciate a proper
'official' repo to collect such things; and it'd be really useful to
have the work-in-progress converted repo online so that people can
experiment with it.

(If anyone needs webspace or similar for that, well, I run lots of cruft
anyways, so another annoying thing won't matter ...)

Thanks for your support,

Patrick

P.S. If anyone feels an overwhelming urge to point out the irony ...
don't ;)