Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

[Rich Freeman]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
> 150828 Rich Freeman wrote:
>
>> git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses > /tmp/log.txt
>
> Tested as user :
>
>   690: ~> git whatchanged /usr/portage/sys-libs/ncurses > tmp/log.txt
>   fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home)
>   Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).

You're probably not using git to fetch your portage tree.

cat /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf
[DEFAULT]
main-repo = gentoo

[gentoo]
location = /usr/portage
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git
auto-sync = yes

Fix that and you'll be fine.  Be aware that you're not going to have
any changelogs once you do this.  I'm not certain but you might have
to delete /usr/portage first - I have no idea how it handles existing
files.

-- 
Rich