470152 – make.conf.5 lacks proper documentation for the ssh:// and rsync:// schemes

Bug 470152 - make.conf.5 lacks proper documentation for the ssh:// and rsync:// schemes

Summary: make.conf.5 lacks proper documentation for the ssh:// and rsync:// schemes

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Documentation
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Portage Documentation (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Keywords:	InVCS

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Blocks:	468524
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Reported:	2013-05-17 12:17 UTC by M. B.
Modified:	2013-05-19 00:25 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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make.conf.5.patch (make.conf.man.patch,798 bytes, text/plain) 2013-05-17 12:17 UTC, M. B.	Details
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Description M. B. 2013-05-17 12:17:39 UTC

Created attachment 348512 [details]
make.conf.5.patch

i just spent about an hour fiddling around with the usage of the ssh:// pattern for make.conf's RSYNC variable and figured i'd contribute and hack around the docs somewhat to make its usage clearer.
e.g. man 5 make.conf

Comment 1 M. B. 2013-05-17 12:20:19 UTC

oh, i forgot to mention that this patch applies against both 2.1.12 and 2.2.0_alpha175.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2013-05-17 16:09:00 UTC

Thanks, your patch is in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=b0f3c0b70042c5d0ca08ff3b19722926b8f1d086

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2013-05-19 00:25:15 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.12.1 and 2.2.0_alpha176.