Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating repoman

[Hank Leininger <hlein@korelogic.com>]

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> On 11-03-2022 13:19:34 -0800, Matt Turner wrote:
> > I've filed a PR against devmanual.git to remove references to repoman
> > and replace them with references to pkgdev where appropriate.

On 2022-03-12, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> 
> Just wondering, is there a "migration guide" or something?  I've never
> used pkg* since joining in 2005.  I can derive some things from the
> first look at the below commit, but an "expert opinion" to just map the
> standard things from repoman to appropriate commands would be nice.

Yes, please this, and not just in devmanual, but also:

  https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0066.html
  https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_git_workflow
  https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_GitHub

All three of those mention repoman some or a lot, and pkgcheck/pkgdev
little or none.

I'm not a dev, just a forgetful proxy maintainer. When I went to learn
the right workflow to submit better-quality PRs on GitHub instead of
just attaching patches to b.g.o. bugs some years back, I looked at
devmanual but the git workflow specific content seemed to be targeted
only at people with access to git.gentoo.org, so I looked elsewhere.

Those Wiki pages talked specifically about my use case. I think they
only mentioned repoman back then. Even now they are 10x more specific
and detailed about how to use repoman in your workflow, vs how to use
pkgcheck.

And indeed, the devmanual still doesn't line up 1:1 with the apparently
soon-to-be-obsolete content in the wikis. For example, wikis say to use
"repoman -dx full"; devmanual only talks about "repoman full" and
replacing that with "pkgcheck scan --commits". What happened to
--include-dev and --xmlparse? Are they not needed/implied in the
pkgcheck case? (From its manpage, I think maybe the default behavior is
equivalent to enabling both of those, but...?)

This is why you can't trust ignorant fools like me to figure it out for
ourselves :-P

Thanks,

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Hank Leininger <hlein@korelogic.com>
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