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On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 1:04 AM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On 2017-07-28 22:01, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> > I wonder if its because I am still using rsync to sync the portage |
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>> > directory? There are no changelogs anywhere! or nothing by that |
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>> > name. |
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>> Ah, looks like they were removed entirely from rsync. It was months |
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>> ago and I don't use rsync so I'd half forgotten what the outcome was. |
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>> There is apparently an rsync repository that only contains Changelogs |
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>> if you want them, but honestly it is probably easier to just check git |
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>> logs. If you run git whatchanged path you'll get the equivalent of |
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>> the Changelog for that path. |
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> What about webrsync? |
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I imagine it is in the same situation. |
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> Can you point me to an online resource where this decision is or was |
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> tracked? |
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Sure. This was running over a year, and I was involved, but I just |
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didn't recall offhand where it all ended up (largely because I don't |
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use rsync, and there was a relatively long period between discussion |
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and implementation). |
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This bug is probably the most concise summary: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565566 |
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The council made a decision a year ago to allow changelog removal as |
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it was redundant with other ways of obtaining the same info: |
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https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20160410-summary.txt |
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It was removed in Oct: |
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https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/651feb859ae9669dfeaa19547fa698dc |
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Apparently you can rsync changelogs only from: |
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rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-repo-changelog |
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It is safe to rsync that over top of your portage tree. |
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IMO unless you really need to read them offline it is probably just as |
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easy to just browse the git repository. I find github provides the |
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nicest viewer, but some people are averse to non-FOSS and I believe |
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you can probably do the same using the FOSS browser on the Gentoo |
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website, or you can just clone the repository and use the git command |
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line to do it. |
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Rich |
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