Re: [gentoo-alt] Mirror Gentoo Prefix repo in Github

[Fabian Groffen]

The remaining changes for packages we have in the overlay should just
get migrated to the main tree.  It takes long because most remaining
changes are controversial and/or their maintainers have expressed in the
past they want nothing to do with Prefix.

On 27-11-2018 20:07:14 +1100, Sam Pfeiffer wrote:
> I mean the git repo, I actually don't know what the other one (the tree as you
> see it from rsync.prefix) is...
>
> How is it that the overlay should go? I guessed that repo has overlayed packages
> to make possible the bootstrapping of Gentoo Prefix.
>
> Is it possible do bootstrap it without those changes?
>
> Sorry if any question sounds trivial.
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 7:14 PM Fabian Groffen <[1]grobian@g.o> wrote:
>
> > What tree are you referring to here?  The "partial overlay" that is
> > gentoo-prefix git repo, or the tree as you see it from rsync.prefix...?
>
> > The latter doesn't exist in a vcs, as it is generated every 30 minutes.
>
> > For the git repo, it's up to infra, but since the overlay really should
> > go, I'd rather not have it get more attention.
>
> > Fabian
>
> > On 26-11-2018 18:23:27 +1100, Sam Pfeiffer wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'd like to propose to mirror the Gentoo Prefix repository in Github for
> > greater
> > > visibility (and ease and speed of working with it from the commodity of a
> > > browser).
> > >
> > > I think it works well with other projects that do it.
> > >
> > > Let me know if I can help on that somehow.
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Sammy Pfeiffer
> > > PhD Candidate at The Magic Lab within UTS.
> > >
> > >
> > > read_char: errno==EILSEQ; invalid byte sequence for UTF-8:
> > --
> > Fabian Groffen
> > Gentoo on a different level
>
> --
>
> Sammy Pfeiffer
> PhD Candidate at The Magic Lab within UTS.
>
>
>
>  References:
>    1. mailto:grobian@g.o
>
> read_char: errno==EILSEQ; invalid byte sequence for UTF-8:
-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level