Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 14/09/16 12:20 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:41:54 +0200 > Alexis Ballier wrote: > >> >> So, to sum it up, I have to: >> - Open a browser, go to github (*) >> - Find out latest commit hash, copy it >> - (*) Copy the ebuild, setting a 8 digit version representing the date >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Kent Fredric
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:41:54 +0200 Alexis Ballier wrote: > > So, to sum it up, I have to: > - Open a browser, go to github (*) > - Find out latest commit hash, copy it > - (*) Copy the ebuild, setting a 8 digit version representing the date > - Open an editor > - Edit COMMIT='...' variable by pa

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:04:20 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 09/14/2016 09:50 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > > that might be better, but how do you map date / $PV to commit ? > > > > Well, for that last one, I just looked down the list of commits and > found the last one that happened be

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:55:06 +0100 James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:53:18 +0100 > James Le Cuirot wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:50:28 +0200 > > Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > > > > But seriously, once you've googled the repo, you might notice > > > > that it's hosted at gi

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Kent Fredric
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:55:06 +0100 James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:53:18 +0100 > James Le Cuirot wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:50:28 +0200 > > Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > [...] > [...] > > > > You can't. > > Sorry, let me correct that, you can't by date but y

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:38:45 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 09/14/2016 09:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > > Guess you never had to maintain packages whose releases are only > > snapshots. They're trivial but it's a waste of time to re-assemble > > all the bits every couple of months when

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/14/2016 09:50 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > that might be better, but how do you map date / $PV to commit ? > Well, for that last one, I just looked down the list of commits and found the last one that happened before the date of the snapshot. But, if you're creating a new snapshot, it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:53:18 +0100 James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:50:28 +0200 > Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > > But seriously, once you've googled the repo, you might notice that > > > it's hosted at github, and that you don't need to create your own > > > snapshot tarballs any m

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:50:28 +0200 Alexis Ballier wrote: > > But seriously, once you've googled the repo, you might notice that > > it's hosted at github, and that you don't need to create your own > > snapshot tarballs any more. Want a snapshot from 20150423? Try, > > > > https://github.com/pat

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/14/2016 09:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > Guess you never had to maintain packages whose releases are only > snapshots. They're trivial but it's a waste of time to re-assemble all > the bits every couple of months when you want to make a snapshot. > > Questions one needs to answer: > > -

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:45:58 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 09/14/2016 01:54 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > We had a review of such files before the git conversion: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/550434 > > > > Especially, there's a list of "maintainer scripts" in comment #13. > > At the ti

[gentoo-dev] Re: Building a portage repo?

2016-09-14 Thread Martin Vaeth
Michał Górny wrote: >> >>and subsequently egencache should give me the same type of portage tree >>that is currently officially distributed to users? > > Then remanifest, egencache with all options. You will also need to > include additional repositories for news, glsas and fetch extra files > for

Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups

2016-09-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/14/2016 01:54 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > We had a review of such files before the git conversion: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/550434 > > Especially, there's a list of "maintainer scripts" in comment #13. > At the time, we didn't do anything about them. There are very few of > such files (n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Building a portage repo?

2016-09-14 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-09-14 03:40, Michał Górny wrote: Portage is the package manager. The repository is named gentoo. Please use correct names because till the last paragraph, I thought you were actually referring to the package manager (and wtf-ed why would you distribute its sources via rsync). Sorry, it'

Re: [gentoo-dev] Building a portage repo?

2016-09-14 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 14 września 2016 09:01:43 CEST, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us napisał(a): >In my work on a sparc64 port of Gentoo i have found it easier to just >fork the portage repo, patch things, and merge upstream changes / >resolve conflicts as they happen. The problem is that this isn't really Portage is

[gentoo-dev] Building a portage repo?

2016-09-14 Thread alexmcwhirter
In my work on a sparc64 port of Gentoo i have found it easier to just fork the portage repo, patch things, and merge upstream changes / resolve conflicts as they happen. The problem is that this isn't really the best way to test things on any kind of scale. My plan is to build a script that doe