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From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Greg KH <greg@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal: pre-emerge advisories
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:16:23
Message-Id: 1122277877.4621.51.camel@lycan.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal: pre-emerge advisories by Greg KH
1 On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 11:18 -0400, Greg KH wrote:
2 > On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 10:53:15AM -0400, Alec Warner wrote:
3 > > Georgi Georgiev wrote:
4 > > > Just to make sure I am not missing something.
5 > > >
6 > > > Does this cover the
7 > > >
8 > > > - If you are upgrading from a version of udev prior to 046 ...
9 > > > - If you are upgrading from a version of udev prior to 050 ...
10 > > > - If you are upgrading from a version of udev prior to 057 ...
11 > > > - If you are upgrading from a version of udev prior to 059 ...
12 > > >
13 > > > cases automatically? I.e. *not* showing irrelevant warnings on every
14 > > > upgrade/rebuild.
15 > > >
16 > >
17 > > The writer of pkg_warn() could do this, it's still in the ebuild and
18 > > could use the normal ebuild functions to determine what the user is
19 > > running ( has_version() and whatnot ) and then run a case statement on that.
20 >
21 > Great, anyone care to send me a patch for the udev ebuild to do this so
22 > not everyone sees this message? It will only get longer over time...
23 >
24
25 Something like this maybe? (Yes, I know using $T will be frowned upon,
26 but not much else you can do. Also, might use has_version(), but that
27 is more difficult to parse, and I figured you normally only want those
28 for system udev ...)
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32 Martin Schlemmer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal: pre-emerge advisories Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>