Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal: pre-emerge advisories

[Georgi Georgiev]

maillog: 23/07/2005-15:04:06(+0900): Jason Stubbs types
> On Saturday 23 July 2005 14:34, Alec Warner wrote:
> > In order to receive this helpful data we basically need 4 or 5 things.
> >
> > RESTRICT="Warning"
> > pkg_warn()
> > Features="Warning"
> > PORTAGE_WARNLEVEL={0-5} ( in make.conf )
> > EBUILD_WARNLEVEL={1-5} ( in the ebuild )
> > patches to portage
> > Developer awareness and use ( QA++ ).
>
> Too complex. RESTRICT="warn" + pkg_warn() is enough.
>
> > 2.  If Features="Warning" is set, pkg_warn() will die pending some
> > action ( to be determined, offhand I'd say put pkg_warn() after
> > src_unpack() and have "emerge --warning-disable CPV" touch
> > $WORKDIR/.warning )  If $WORKDIR/.warning exists then continue the build
> > and assume that the admin has read the content of pkg_warn().
>
> Why make it so difficult? Why die at all? The point of having pkg_warn()
> separate to pkg_setup() is so that dieing is not necessary and the
> information can be given up front.
>
> `emerge --warnings -uDvp world` could list the warnings after the upgrade
> list for example. FEATURES="warnings" can permanently enable --warnings
> similar to FEATURES="buildpkg" works.
>
> Does this not cover all bases already?

Just to make sure I am not missing something.

Does this cover the

- If you are upgrading from a version of udev prior to 046 ...
- If you are upgrading from a version of udev prior to 050 ...
- If you are upgrading from a version of udev prior to 057 ...
- If you are upgrading from a version of udev prior to 059 ...

cases automatically? I.e. *not* showing irrelevant warnings on every
upgrade/rebuild.

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