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On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> On śro, 2017-05-24 at 13:13 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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>> Many news items are only relevant when upgrading a package from one |
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>> version to another. For fresh installs, the user does not need to take |
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>> any action. A good example of this is the recent gcc upgrade from 4.9 |
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>> to 5. |
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>> |
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>> In this context, it is often desirable to inform the user of a major |
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>> change in a package before they upgrade it. This would give them time |
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>> to prepare, and allow to skip the upgrade until they are ready. |
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>> |
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>> This is technically possible with the current news item format by |
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>> using a Display-If-Installed header. However, this has a few problems |
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>> depending on how you format the dependency spec. |
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>> |
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>> Display-If-Installed: cat/pkg |
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>> This will be displayed to too many users. |
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>> |
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>> Display-If-Installed: >=cat/pkg-ver |
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>> This will be displayed to users only after they have upgraded. |
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>> |
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>> Display-If-Installed: <cat/pkg-ver |
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>> This targets the right people, but the message will be displayed too |
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>> early for stable users. |
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>> I would like to introduce a new header "Display-If-Visible". This |
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>> would restrict display of the news item to users for which the given |
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>> dependency is visible according to their ACCEPT_KEYWORDS and |
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>> package.accept_keywords settings. |
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>> |
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>> Example usage: |
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>> Display-If-Installed: <sys-devel/gcc-5 |
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>> Display-If-Visible: >=sys-devel/gcc-5 |
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>> Comments? |
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> |
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> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/7f5ff2c0a844050f846516a6af39bb06 |
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> |
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> (and the replies to that) |
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Thanks for the pointer. I suppose I'll just draft something for the GLEP change. |
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