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2014/1/17 Burcin Erocal <burcin@××××××.org>: |
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> On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:10:54 +0100 |
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> Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 17-01-2014 13:00:58 +0100, Burcin Erocal wrote: |
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>> > Now that overlays.gentoo.org is back and the SVN repository works |
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>> > again, do you plan to go back to using the original repository? |
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>> Since Gentoo infra has expressed before that they would rather get rid |
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>> of it, than to keep on supporting it, no. I think the mercurial |
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>> version is more beneficial for everyone involved. |
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> OK. It shouldn't be a problem to switch to the new repository. I just |
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> want to avoid having to switch back afterwards. :) |
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>> > I maintain a git mirror of the prefix-overlay repository [1] for the |
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>> > update scripts in lmonade [2] |
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>> Cool, I didn't know. I intended to import the svn history, but it |
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>> takes a long while, and I frankly don't know what's the benefit. So |
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>> unless someone has an urgent need for the old history, I think I'll |
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>> keep it as is, since the point of the repo is to disappear anyway. |
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> I'd really like to see the prefix-overlay disappear and be properly |
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> integrated in the gx86 repo. But that still seems like a distant |
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> dream... |
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We are on it, there isn't much left: |
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$ find . -name metadata.xml | wc -l |
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128 |
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Help us by filing bugs to review the changes sitting in the prefix overlay: |
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<https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315803> |
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>> > I am asking to see if I should change the cron jobs to convert from |
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>> > the mercurial repo instead of SVN. |
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>> I think you should. Not sure what kind of mess it caused for you, but |
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>> if I can do something for you to make it easier, then let me know. |
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> Thanks! It looks like git can handle this without too much trouble. No |
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> changes are needed on your end. |
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> For the record, I will keep the history in the git mirror and graft the |
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> (git version of the) mercurial repository on to that. Old history was |
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> already imported into the main lmonade repository. It will be simpler |
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> to adjust the prefix-overlay mirror to the changes. |
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> Many thanks for all your work on gentoo-prefix. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Burcin |
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Christoph Junghans |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~ottxor/ |
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