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On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 08:39, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> I think we'll end up moving the ChangeLogs over to an XML format as part of |
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> this work. This will make it easier to write tools that can filter updates |
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> based on security alerts and bug fixes. |
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> Just imagine being able to do: |
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> emerge --show-summaries -u world |
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> and being able to get a list of bugs and security problems fixed by the |
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> prospective upgrades, with links to the relevant entries in Bugzilla. |
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I love that idea. The only problem I see is the need to add xml-parsing |
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ability to portage, but the QA tool that was posted to this list a while |
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back and the metadata xml parser, shows that it isn't impossible. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Is your power animal a penguin? |
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