On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Robin H. Johnson <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:33:27PM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > Ahoi, > > > > I've been looking for a clean git-converted gentoo-x86 repo for ... well > > ... mostly data mining as cvs / anoncvs.g.o is too slow for some things. > > > > This has been needlessly challenging, which confuses me a bit. > > > > First, a little complaint: > > > > There used to be some data at git-exp.overlays.gentoo.org, but that > > machine has vanished. Ok, stuff happens, but that's not motivating. > That physical host was made into the new home of overlays.g.o when the > previous host died. The content is still available. > > > Anoncvs.g.o is bouncing up and down a lot, so just getting the raw cvs > > repo to do a local conversion is somewhere between needlessly hard and > > impossible. > Even with the move to anonvcs being separated from sources.g.o last > week? > I made it work, then it was rebooted for maintenance and broke again (the chroots were missing from fstab.) It is functioning now and no one has filed a bug report with sufficient detail of the deficiencies they are experiencing; plus it works for me when I try it. I asked Patrick to file a more detailed report than 'hey anoncvs is not working again.' -A > > > The gentoo-scm mailinglist has mostly fallen asleep, but even the stuff > > discussed there doesn't seem to exist in a public repo that can be found > > without telepathy skills. > ... > > I'd appreciate it if people that worked on the conversion would point me > > at the scripts and documentation they used; I'd appreciate a proper > > 'official' repo to collect such things; and it'd be really useful to > > have the work-in-progress converted repo online so that people can > > experiment with it. > I'm going to document what's last on there, as well as in my head onto > the wiki. > > -- > Robin Hugh Johnson > Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead > E-Mail : [email protected] > GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 > >
