[gentoo-user] Re: Bisect a problem going back months?

2010-09-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras 

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- 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?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bisect a problem going back months?

2010-09-13 Thread Mark Knecht 
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@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- 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