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On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:42:57PM +0300, Eldad Zack wrote: |
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> Hey Guys, |
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> I've got an idea to implement package notices, as opposed to |
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> outputing these important messages to stdout using e{info,warn,error}. |
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> The idea is VERY simple: write the message to a file (say, |
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> /var/portage/notices/{P}) and have a utility to read and delete these |
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> messages. Maybe even build this functionality into etc-config. |
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> (Maybe mail these messages to a configured address?) |
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> For ease-of-use I propose adding a simple wrapper command ("enotice" or |
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> "notice") that would take care of writing into the correct file. |
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> If this looks like a good idea I'll move on and punch out the matching |
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> code. |
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> Comments? Ideas? |
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Before you get too invalved in writing code for this, take a look at this bug. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11359 |
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The final patch I posted to ebuild.sh (comment #103) does the first part of this -- collecting the messages in a single file, and I have been told that something similar to this will be implemented after portage 2.0.51 is released. |
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William |
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