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. 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. 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. So ... well ... if it's that hard to just find out the state of the last experiments there won't be much contribution. There is a git repository at https://bitbucket.org/lmnd/gentoo-x86 - but (1) it has truncated history and (2) it diverges by >1500 files from gentoo-x86 for the last week. So that's mostly useless for data mining. (I haven't tried figuring out how it diverges, but raw ebuild count is +1600 for "yesterday", so that's baad) 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. (If anyone needs webspace or similar for that, well, I run lots of cruft anyways, so another annoying thing won't matter ...) Thanks for your support, Patrick P.S. If anyone feels an overwhelming urge to point out the irony ... don't ;)
