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

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 22:33 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Monday 25 July 2005 22:09, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 20:53 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > > On Monday 25 July 2005 16:51, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > > > Something like this maybe?  (Yes, I know using $T will be frowned upon,
> > > > but not much else you can do.  Also, might use has_version(), but that
> > > > is more difficult to parse, and I figured you normally only want those
> > > > for system udev ...)
> > >
> > > Combining the pkg_preinst and pkg_postinst parts (and removing the usage
> > > of $T ;), that pretty much shows exactly what the proposed pkg_warn would
> > > look like. Only difference being that it would be executed before emerging
> > > starts.
> >
> > Currently:
> > - if everything is moved to pkg_preinst(), the message will not show at
> > the end of the merge, so much higher chance of getting missed.
> > - if everything is moved to pkg_postinst(), $udev_version will be the
> > new version, and be of no use.
> > - if you meant that this is for the pkg_warn() ... it still wont really
> > help that much, as it will differ from before/after the update :/
>
> What's the issue with pkg_warn? It would only be ran before the update,
> so the ebuild it's in is the new version and the current version can be
> obtained with has_version.
>

Ah, ok, guess I should read more carefully next time =)


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Martin Schlemmer