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On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:46:59PM +0200, Wout Mertens wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 09:44:38AM -0400, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> > > Actually, all of the changes are documented. Take a look |
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> > > at /usr/portage/net-www/apache/ChangeLog. |
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> > Just not when you already worked arround this and have this |
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> > "complicated/large site". Sorry I missed the announce that something |
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> > vital was done to apache. Good thing I havn't blindly upgraded. |
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> Which is very good, as a "complicated/large site"-admin, you need to test |
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> things before you make them happen. If you tweak stuff in a package, you |
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> can expect it to break updates... |
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If the layout and placing of files hadn't been changed I could just |
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have upgraded. |
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Don't get me wrong I think the update was needed to make some sense |
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and enable some default security (not running as nobody). |
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> > Too many people have problems with it. But maybe we all expected |
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> > something more than a note in a changelog for such a change. |
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> But that is exactly what Changelog is for, notifying the user about what |
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> changed. Although I admit it doesn't have a lot of visibility, we might |
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> want to do something about that, like an option on emerge that shows the |
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> changelogs since your version... |
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> If you have other ideas, please tell us. |
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Maybe some verbosity in this direction could be implemented in emerge |
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then? |
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Like: |
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gugi root # emerge mutt --pretend |
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These are the packages that I would merge, in order. |
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Calculating dependencies ...done! |
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[ebuild U ] net-mail/mutt-1.4 to / |
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gugi root # emerge mutt --verbose --pretend |
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These are the packages that I would merge, in order. |
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Calculating dependencies ...done! |
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[ebuild U ] net-mail/mutt-1.4 to / |
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29 Apr 2002; Ryan Phillips <rphillips@g.o> mutt-1.4.ebuild : |
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new version |
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gugi root # |
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That would be nice. |
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| Bjarke Sørensen / 9000.WASD |
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| There are 10 types of people in this world: |
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| Those who understand binary, and those who don't. |
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