From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NpKHj-0002jT-Dg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:41:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 446BEE0B5D; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:40:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A4B2E0B5D for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:40:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C1F1B40F6 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:40:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.682 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.682 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.917, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9bCK75+iqv0g for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:40:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49BFC1B416D for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:40:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpKGh-0004Sd-DS for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:40:03 +0100 Received: from geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.131.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:40:03 +0100 Received: from theonewiththeevillook by geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:40:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nicolas Richard Subject: [gentoo-user] how to "git-bisect" in a portage-compatible way ? Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:03:44 +0100 Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100308 Thunderbird/3.0.3 X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 X-Archives-Salt: 9a016ea3-b3d7-4746-a514-e4948f9b78a8 X-Archives-Hash: f7ba10ab12082beb342f774fb31722a7 Hello, Background info : I'm experiencing a bug and found out that the bug doesn't appear with libdrm-2.4.11 (I kept an ebuild for this one in /usr/local/portage/...), but it does occur with libdrm-2.4.13 (not sure about the version numbers anymore, and I have yet to try 2.4.12, too, but that's not the question) So the general question is : if I want to use git-bisect (I have never done that before, but today is a good time to try), I guess it means I'll have to build libdrm outside portage : if so, once I'm finished with hunting the bug, how to go back to the situation where portage does everything for me ? Some more precise questions : - before I begin, should I first unmerge libdrm ? - once I finished with bisecting, should I reemerge libdrm ? Will portage overwrite files it may need to overwrite ? what about orphanned files (if any) ? I looked at the documentation list on gentoo.org, I did find a section entitled "Non-portage maintained software", but this is not what I'm looking for. Where else should I look at ? thanks for your comments Nicolas.