It would be nice if "equery c" would ask the git history for git repositories. There must be already some code in portage which does this, because the ChangeLogs can be generated from this history by egencache --changelog-reversed --update-changelogs so perhaps this interface can be made public such that equery can access it. From the user perspective, it would be a huge waste of resources to generate ChangeLogs for all git repositories he uses only for being able to use "equery c" conveniently: very likely the indirect asking of git is not remarkably slower than reading only the ChangeLog. On the other hand, without generating the ChangeLogs, it is currently very inconvenient for the user, because he has to manually change into all directories of the corresponding repositories and send an appropriate git command there. Of course, the latter might be done by a script, but shouldn't equery be such a script?
With portage syncing to a git mirror: # emerge -DuqN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ~] dev-python/numpy-1.11.1 [1.11.0] PYTHON_TARGETS="-python3_3%" # equery c numpy !!! Fatal error: /usr/portage/dev-python/numpy/ChangeLog does not exist or is unreadable Add '--debug' to global options for traceback.
Since changelogs are obsolete and no longer generated. I am going to call this one as obsolete. Please re-open if still relevant.
