Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog - Infra Response

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

Dnia 2 listopada 2015 06:50:39 CET, "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
>I'm replying to the top level of the thread, because I've been on
>offline vacation recharging myself for a week, and this thread seems to
>have degenerated into ways to avoid the issue, rather than focusing
>with
>what's actually wrong.
>
>rsync-as-a-way-to-get-the-tree is NOT being deprecated, it has very
>valid use cases, and places where git is not suited.
>
>I asked zmedico & dol-sen for TWO critical changes to egencache's
>--update-changelogs code.
>
>1. Control of the OUTPUT filename for the generated changelog
>- the from-git generated changelog will go to 'ChangeLog.git'
>2. Control for the order ENTRY for the generated changelog 
>- changing to OLDEST-first, with appending the new data at the end
>- this massively improves rsync performance.
>
>dol-sen said he was busy with the repoman rewrite, and didn't want to
>introduce the change at the time, so this has been deferred for the
>moment.
>
>Without #1, we have to rename ALL of the old changelogs, otherwise they
>will be overwritten by the new ones from Git history.
>
>I probably should have created a bug for both of these, because I don't
>know if they got tracked accurately since I asked for them in August,
>and I certainly don't see the code being updated in the repoman or
>master branches of the portage repo (it also still generates a $Header$
>entry, which does have an open bug as we.

You should have indeed. Both seem trivial and I'd have done them a long time ago if anybody bothered telling me about it.

>
>Since dol-sen and zmedico are so busy as well, somebody from this
>thread
>with time to complain, please implement & test these changes!
>It's NOT as trivial as dropping a variable into the place where it
>opens
>the file, because there is other code later that also hardcodes the
>filename.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny