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On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:37:23AM -0400, Owen Gunden wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Attached is a small patch for the file functions.sh (part of baselayout) |
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> which implements the feature "emergemail" (set in /etc/make.conf FEATURES). |
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> When this feature is turned on (and an mta is present), all einfo, ewarn, |
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> and eerror messages are emailed to root. |
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> This is useful if you upgrade or install multiple packages at once, and you |
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> don't want to miss any important messages that go whizzing by. |
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> There is a major flaw with the current implementation. Namely, you get an |
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> email for _every_ invocation of einfo, ewarn, or error. The way those |
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> functions are commonly used (repeated calls for multi-line messages) makes |
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> avoiding this flaw quite difficult without rather sweeping changes to the |
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> design of emerge/ebuild. |
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> Comments or suggestions welcome. |
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I haven't had time to look at or test the code, but I really love the |
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concept. I'd love to see it integrated into Portage. |
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Jon Portnoy |
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