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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: what about dracut and systemd?
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 13:13:56
Message-Id: 968bc059-25f6-72c2-ac57-4c728ac813b9@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: what about dracut and systemd? by Rich Freeman
1 Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 1:04 AM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
3 >> On 2017-07-28 22:01, Rich Freeman wrote:
4 >>
5 >>>> I wonder if its because I am still using rsync to sync the portage
6 >>>> directory? There are no changelogs anywhere! or nothing by that
7 >>>> name.
8 >>> Ah, looks like they were removed entirely from rsync. It was months
9 >>> ago and I don't use rsync so I'd half forgotten what the outcome was.
10 >>>
11 >>> There is apparently an rsync repository that only contains Changelogs
12 >>> if you want them, but honestly it is probably easier to just check git
13 >>> logs. If you run git whatchanged path you'll get the equivalent of
14 >>> the Changelog for that path.
15 >> What about webrsync?
16 > I imagine it is in the same situation.
17 >
18 >> Can you point me to an online resource where this decision is or was
19 >> tracked?
20 >>
21 > Sure. This was running over a year, and I was involved, but I just
22 > didn't recall offhand where it all ended up (largely because I don't
23 > use rsync, and there was a relatively long period between discussion
24 > and implementation).
25 >
26 > This bug is probably the most concise summary:
27 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565566
28 >
29 > The council made a decision a year ago to allow changelog removal as
30 > it was redundant with other ways of obtaining the same info:
31 > https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20160410-summary.txt
32 >
33 > It was removed in Oct:
34 > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/651feb859ae9669dfeaa19547fa698dc
35 >
36 > Apparently you can rsync changelogs only from:
37 > rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-repo-changelog
38 >
39 > It is safe to rsync that over top of your portage tree.
40 >
41 > IMO unless you really need to read them offline it is probably just as
42 > easy to just browse the git repository. I find github provides the
43 > nicest viewer, but some people are averse to non-FOSS and I believe
44 > you can probably do the same using the FOSS browser on the Gentoo
45 > website, or you can just clone the repository and use the git command
46 > line to do it.
47 >
48
49 Is there a way to add that to repos.conf and it get it during a regular
50 sync? I use eix-sync by the way.
51
52 I went to the wiki to see if I could find how to set that up, I do check
53 changelogs sometimes, but couldn't find anything. Maybe I used the
54 wrong search terms???
55
56 Dale
57
58 :-) :-)