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. -- Rich
