Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 1:04 AM, Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote: >> On 2017-07-28 22:01, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >>>> I wonder if its because I am still using rsync to sync the portage >>>> directory? There are no changelogs anywhere! or nothing by that >>>> name. >>> Ah, looks like they were removed entirely from rsync. It was months >>> ago and I don't use rsync so I'd half forgotten what the outcome was. >>> >>> There is apparently an rsync repository that only contains Changelogs >>> if you want them, but honestly it is probably easier to just check git >>> logs. If you run git whatchanged path you'll get the equivalent of >>> the Changelog for that path. >> What about webrsync? > I imagine it is in the same situation. > >> Can you point me to an online resource where this decision is or was >> tracked? >> > Sure. This was running over a year, and I was involved, but I just > didn't recall offhand where it all ended up (largely because I don't > use rsync, and there was a relatively long period between discussion > and implementation). > > This bug is probably the most concise summary: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565566 > > The council made a decision a year ago to allow changelog removal as > it was redundant with other ways of obtaining the same info: > https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20160410-summary.txt > > It was removed in Oct: > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/651feb859ae9669dfeaa19547fa698dc > > Apparently you can rsync changelogs only from: > rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-repo-changelog > > It is safe to rsync that over top of your portage tree. > > IMO unless you really need to read them offline it is probably just as > easy to just browse the git repository. I find github provides the > nicest viewer, but some people are averse to non-FOSS and I believe > you can probably do the same using the FOSS browser on the Gentoo > website, or you can just clone the repository and use the git command > line to do it. >
Is there a way to add that to repos.conf and it get it during a regular sync? I use eix-sync by the way. I went to the wiki to see if I could find how to set that up, I do check changelogs sometimes, but couldn't find anything. Maybe I used the wrong search terms??? Dale :-) :-)
