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On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:17:38AM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: |
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> On 14/7/2005 7:24:03, Craig Lawson (craig.lawson@××××××××.edu) wrote: |
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> > [...] To be more concrete, I'm thinking of something like a database [...] |
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> I don't think a separate database is a good idea; too many sources for information. |
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How about using metadata.xml? I'd think this data is ideally suited for |
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it. It's metadata about the package, and it's already distributed with |
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the tree. |
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> > [...] For example [...] |
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> > current: any |
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> > target: =gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.10.0 |
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> > advisory: Menu editing disabled until follow-up release. |
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> > Work-around is to install Python 4 + smeg. See |
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> > forum topic http://forums.gentoo.org/blah... |
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> How about adding: |
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> ADVICE="Menu editing disabled until follow-up release. |
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> Work-around is to install Python 4 + smeg. See |
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> forum topic http://forums.gentoo.org/blah..." |
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> |
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> to the gnome-menus-2.10.0 ebuild (sorry Chris, no parsing needed :} ). |
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> It'd be trivial to knock up a widget to extract and display this data, |
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> and I'd guess trivial to add an '--advice' option to emerge to do the |
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> same. Perhaps it'd be simpler just to include it alongside the |
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> changelog data with the '--changelog' option. |
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Putting it in the ebuild becomes a bit complex when you want to include |
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lots of text, or if you want to display a message for a specific |
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downgrade or something else like that. Basically while you have the |
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'target' attribute, you have no way to specify the 'current' attribute, |
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and you can't have multiple advisories per ebuild. |
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metadata.xml variant: |
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<pkgmetadata><advisory target="=gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.10.0"> |
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Menu editing disabled until follow-up release. |
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Work-around is to install Python 4 + smeg. See |
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forum topic http://forums.gentoo.org/blah... |
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</advisory></pkgmetadata> |
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('current' attribute defaulting to any version, and both the 'target' |
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and 'current' attributes should be full package atoms.) |
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> Of course such advice could be just written into the changelog in the first place... |
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The problem is that users complain and don't read the changelog, since |
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it's too long. They want only specific advisories that are needed, not |
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every little change notice. |
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