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Luca Barbato posted on Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:14:12 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> On 24/02/16 01:33, Duncan wrote: |
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>> That option is there, and indeed, a patch providing it was specifically |
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>> added to portage for infra to use, because appending entries to |
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>> existing files is vastly easier and more performant than trying to |
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>> prepend entries and having to rewrite the entire file as a result. |
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> This sounds wrong in many different ways. The changelog files are tiny |
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> and makes next to no difference truncate+write or append. |
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FWIW, here's the egencache --updatechangelogs related patch-thread |
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starters (from which the links can be followed to the threads) from back |
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in early November, on the portage-dev list. The 4/4 patch in the first |
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thread added --reverse-order, tho as the intro suggests, there was prior |
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discussion, which my quick "changelog" search didn't pick up. IIRC the |
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original discussion was triggered on the gentoo-dev list by... patrick@, |
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and infra/robbat2's replies started there. |
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http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/5899 |
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http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/5934 |
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http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/5964 |
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http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/5989 |
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The last two also mention: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565540 |
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(egencache --update-changelog: parallel support, bug still, BTW, |
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status: IN_PROGRESS) |
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OK, here's the original gentoo-dev thread OP by patrick@: |
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http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/98287 |
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And here's the beginning of the "infra response" subthread with infra/ |
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robbat2@'s responses: |
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http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/98337 |
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And... as it happens that first infra response explains the oldest-first, |
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straight from the horse's mouth, as the saying goes. =:^) |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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