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From: Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal: pre-emerge advisories
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 04:26:18
Message-Id: 20050723151817.GA5395@kroah.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal: pre-emerge advisories by Alec Warner
1 On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 10:53:15AM -0400, Alec Warner wrote:
2 > Georgi Georgiev wrote:
3 > > Just to make sure I am not missing something.
4 > >
5 > > Does this cover the
6 > >
7 > > - If you are upgrading from a version of udev prior to 046 ...
8 > > - If you are upgrading from a version of udev prior to 050 ...
9 > > - If you are upgrading from a version of udev prior to 057 ...
10 > > - If you are upgrading from a version of udev prior to 059 ...
11 > >
12 > > cases automatically? I.e. *not* showing irrelevant warnings on every
13 > > upgrade/rebuild.
14 > >
15 >
16 > The writer of pkg_warn() could do this, it's still in the ebuild and
17 > could use the normal ebuild functions to determine what the user is
18 > running ( has_version() and whatnot ) and then run a case statement on that.
19
20 Great, anyone care to send me a patch for the udev ebuild to do this so
21 not everyone sees this message? It will only get longer over time...
22
23 thanks,
24
25 greg k-h
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal: pre-emerge advisories Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>