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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bisect a problem going back months?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:59:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikbbNiqSW+ZBoUBRcMnZ43vtW2NTE6Zqk08ajwK@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i6m2ek$r8d$2@dough.gmane.org>

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 09/13/2010 05:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> I'm wondering if there is a Gentoo way to bisect a bug
>
> A bit off-topic, but it would be awesome if we could run git bisect with
> live ebuilds.  Right now, I'm using xf86-video-ati-9999 for example. When I
> update it and there's a bug, I can't really bisect it; I need to grab the
> sources from Git manually and install it outside of portage (and that's
> bad.)
>
> I guess it might be a good idea for the next GSoC?

That would actually be quite cool actually - to be able to bisect but
stay within portage.

- Mark



      reply	other threads:[~2010-09-13 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-13 14:38 [gentoo-user] Bisect a problem going back months? Mark Knecht
2010-09-13 18:49 ` Paul Hartman
2010-09-13 19:26   ` Mark Knecht
2010-09-13 19:42     ` Paul Hartman
2010-09-13 19:51       ` Mark Knecht
2010-09-13 20:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-09-13 22:59   ` Mark Knecht [this message]

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