Phoronix Launches Phorogit Repository

[un1xer]

Is AMD/ATI paying you guys or is just plain fanboyism!?!?

[Michael]

Is AMD/ATI paying you guys or is just plain fanboyism!?!?

No, AMD is not funding us. It's simply the fact of better enabling the Linux community. If NVIDIA wants a git repository, they can have one too!

[un1xer]

Ok, point taken.
But you must understand the reason behind my question, i see far more space dedicated to AMD/ATI news or related stuff in Phoronix, it would be a shame to see an excellent and a supposed impartial site like this turn to either one of the gpu manufacturers.
I'm sorry if i didn't express myself in a more appropriate way.

[Michael]

i see far more space dedicated to AMD/ATI news or related stuff in Phoronix,

That's simply because there is more to actively report on and that they are willing to send us new drivers early for benchmarking, etc. On the NVIDIA side, there's good and bad days whether they cooperate and let us know in advance new information, etc. I am more than willing to work with both companies and have been doing so.

[hmmm]

At what part of the driver release will/does amd pull the updated scripts - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item=735&num=4

just before the branch or just before the beta???

[Michael]

AMD pulls before each beta release and then one final time about a week before the final release.

[mal13]

So when do we get easy to use method?
I haven't used git before so i'm not-so-familiar w/ it.

[Berniyh]

So when do we get easy to use method?
I haven't used git before so i'm not-so-familiar w/ it.

It's not really hard to use.

As long as you don't modify things in your local tree, there are really only these things, that you might need:

git clone http://phorogit.com/repo/fglrx-packaging.git fglrx-packaging

Clones the Phorogit tree to fglrx-packaging.

cd fglrx-packaging
git pull

Updates your local tree with the changes, that have been made in phorogit repository.
Right after clone it should said "Already up-to-date.".

cd fglrx-packaging
git log

View the log of the changes, that have been made.

That should be all that is needed to get started.

[Berniyh]

Would there actually be interest for putting an ebuild
for gentoo in that repository, too?
Of course it would be useless, when it actually hits
portage, but during driver release and ebuild release in
portage it might be helpful to some people and it could
also be a nice way to have the latest ebuild using git,
until it's in the tree officially.
(Normally the ebuild changes a little bit from day to day.)

Actually I'm using git already for my local portage overlay.

[Michael]

Would there actually be interest for putting an ebuild
for gentoo in that repository, too?
Of course it would be useless, when it actually hits
portage, but during driver release and ebuild release in
portage it might be helpful to some people and it could
also be a nice way to have the latest ebuild using git,
until it's in the tree officially.
(Normally the ebuild changes a little bit from day to day.)

Actually I'm using git already for my local portage overlay.

Sending you a PM...