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On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:33:27PM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> Ahoi, |
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> I've been looking for a clean git-converted gentoo-x86 repo for ... well |
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> ... mostly data mining as cvs / anoncvs.g.o is too slow for some things. |
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> This has been needlessly challenging, which confuses me a bit. |
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> First, a little complaint: |
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> There used to be some data at git-exp.overlays.gentoo.org, but that |
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> machine has vanished. Ok, stuff happens, but that's not motivating. |
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That physical host was made into the new home of overlays.g.o when the |
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previous host died. The content is still available. |
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> Anoncvs.g.o is bouncing up and down a lot, so just getting the raw cvs |
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> repo to do a local conversion is somewhere between needlessly hard and |
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> impossible. |
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Even with the move to anonvcs being separated from sources.g.o last |
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week? |
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> The gentoo-scm mailinglist has mostly fallen asleep, but even the stuff |
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> discussed there doesn't seem to exist in a public repo that can be found |
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> without telepathy skills. |
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... |
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> I'd appreciate it if people that worked on the conversion would point me |
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> at the scripts and documentation they used; I'd appreciate a proper |
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> 'official' repo to collect such things; and it'd be really useful to |
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> have the work-in-progress converted repo online so that people can |
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> experiment with it. |
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I'm going to document what's last on there, as well as in my head onto |
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the wiki. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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