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Bug 618664 - crossrepo , set of scripts to fork a repo and rig keywords. $ARCH testing...
Summary: crossrepo , set of scripts to fork a repo and rig keywords. $ARCH testing...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2017-05-16 15:39 UTC by Michael Lawrence
Modified: 2017-06-29 18:39 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Lawrence 2017-05-16 15:39:49 UTC
make an auto-fork of a repo , 
IE emerge-sync gentoo ,and or /layman-ic overlay ie pentoo make a fork via rsync on done.

ie gentoo-arm64 in /usr/local/overlay/gentoo-arm64  $reponame-$arch..

drop packages already maching $arch ie arm or arm64 or specified. 

into keywords:  
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~ia64 ~mips ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos"

change or append $Arch via sed or script if keywords not present then not an issue , can also drop.. & repoman manifests in dynamic-clone repo

KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64  ~ia64 ~mips ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos"


build packages...  

option to offer diffs, logs etc  via email to gentoo team  arch-name some team....  -build-Success @gentoo.org  (long term packages can have keywords appended at leisure) sort term would shut up the nagging on emerge and me having to bug report it .. EVERY TIME , 

prertyy please package builds update key words ..... X 100, 1000 packages... heck might even have email > script 
auto fix keywords on successes .... 

offer-epic-fails @ arch-tem-name-build-fails@ gentoo.org ... 
build logs... etc.. 

patches can get made, etc , 

would be a nice to have along with CROSSDEV 
squashfs for embed fork testing also a nice to have. esp to save room on some embeded things ie RPI3... 




Reproducible: Didn't try
Comment 1 Michael Lawrence 2017-05-16 16:23:10 UTC
KEYWORDS= not in ebuild/s dont need to have a copy.. 

keywords has arch ie arm64 , can drop...

for ebuilds missing the chosen $arch in the keywords append it in... 

*/*:gentoo ~arm64 , /etc/portage/  package-accept-keywords etc.. fails often..
package.use ~$arch in this case fails.. also easy to fat finger.
p7zip lzma etc hot edit , fix with repoman by adding in ~arm64 in my use case fixes it.  however with a OMG number of packages , doing this by hand could get ugly..  also next emerge --sync will kill any hotfixes.. less added to a local overlay which could grow quickly stale.. 

emerge -sync main tree, clone , packages missing ~$ARCH in keywords , (KEEP)

AUTO HOT Patch Keywords in Ebuild/s  "Auto-magically" in clone/s repo/s 
 repoman auto-clone/s repo after... for manifests... on the back end.


New CPU $ arch comes out , less hell to test... in the future...  

automate new $Arch testing in docker... perhaps... 
? Automate keyword fixing and package builds on new $Arches faster..  

Perfect add on with crossdev.. catalyst etc. 

option to automate sending feedback logs.. 
feed back fixes that work.. auto-github , etc, email etc..  diffs logs etc.
feedback build fails for new patches.. 


nutshell: would be a nice to have , for users/devs a like.
as more RPI like options get dirt cheap , having a firewall Gentoo etc on a mini-brick or arm64 (or newer cpu arches not yet contemplated).. ie blade servers , could yield to much faster testing , and or more immediate use.. 
faster turnaround.
Comment 2 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2017-05-16 19:55:43 UTC
Michael, I tried to understand this report and discussed it with other developers. But we do not understand your recent reports. 
Please read a few other reports and the wiki [1] to get an impression how to improve. 

We agreed, that we have to close this ticket, because we can not understand it. 
I hope you can understand this. 

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bugzilla/Bug_report_guide
Comment 3 Michael Lawrence 2017-06-27 13:06:19 UTC
1:) fork a repo for testing... (having a post-hook auto-fork toy...)
(having a set of scripts to do this on emerge --sync ...)  

2) fix the keywords for testing.. (and or user/s less annoyed and having to hand hack every flipping ebuild... for say ~arm64 or CPU of choice...) 

3) repoman will fix the manifests. in background. 

4) cross compile or native compile. 

5) at user option mail logs back to gentoo , build ok , item can get marked for keywords as ~ or $ARCH... and or fixed for $arch, (ie arm64) 


ie Gentoo-local ...  /usr/portage/  > clone to /usr/gentoo-local 

GREP/sed ?? **post-hook perhaps** to rsync a repo to /usr/local/X? 


anyhow most ebuilds are stable for X86 or AMD64...  

however I've also been building for ~ARM64 

A: test an ebuild...  cd /usr/.... nano ebuild.... 

Keywords..... < ~arm64 ....

UGHH how annoying... after the 200th... ebuild... 
or cd /usr/portage/??/?? emerge *.ebuild



so making an auto-fork of Gentoo and or laymanic repo's 
Auto patching Keywords=Myarch ~myarch
IE arch your testing... arm64 in my case.. 

SEND FAIL / SEND Success logs to ???? @ gentoo.org. 

emerge --sync , main repo done
post hook rsync a copy to /usr/local/gentoo-$arch 
find ebuilds fix keywords... for $arch.... background repoman and fix my clone.. 

volunteers could test packages with more automation... as well some packages have few deps ... but those deps have a crapton of hidden deps. 


my main point is if your not wanting to keyword a lot of ebuilds by hand 

making a fork and not having to do this every emerge -sync or layman -S 
and having this find ebuilds 

this could help do keyword testing far more quickly. 

https://github.com/sakaki-/gentoo-on-rpi3-64bit 

https://www.dropbox.com/home/sakaki--gentoo-on-rpi3-64bit 

granted i need to migrate to a softIron arm64 server.. 
as the PI3 has just a touch less ram at times.
Comment 4 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2017-06-29 18:39:11 UTC
I understand that you want to suggest a new feature, but I do not understand what it should be good for or how it exactly works.

As we can not really discuss on a bug tracker, I close the ticket here and suggest you discuss the idea in a forum or on IRC.