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On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:16:30 -0600 Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o> |
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| On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:51:25AM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > ``Posted:`` |
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| > Date of posting, in ``dd-mmm-yyyy`` format (e.g. 14-Aug-2001). |
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| > Mandatory. |
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| Don't have a good arguement as to why it should be added, but utc |
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| time seems like it should be included. |
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Ok. I nicked the Posting: header from GLEPs, which only use dates. Are |
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posting times relevant for news items? |
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| > ``Display-If-Installed:`` |
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| > A dependency atom or simple package name (for example, |
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| > ``<dev-lang/php-5_alpha`` or ``net-www/apache``). If the user |
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| > has the package specified installed, the news item should be |
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| > displayed. |
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| You're going to run into issues with slotmoves for longterm... |
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| I'd personally rather the translation/updating of the atoms specified |
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| for this field does *not* occur in portage clientside, iow it's |
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| handled server side. |
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Would adding news/ to the "list of stuff that must be changed when you |
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do a package move" suffice? |
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| TODO: Display-If-Profile: ? |
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| I'd like to kill off the deprecated profile file someday... |
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Ok. |
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| > News Item Display |
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| > ----------------- |
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| > Whenever relevant unread news items are found, ``emerge`` will copy |
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| > the news file into ``/var/lib/gentoo/news/``. |
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| Expand this to address N repo's all delivering their own news |
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| please... |
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If we have proper named repos... /var/lib/gentoo/news/repo_name/ ? What |
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are the plans for multiple repositories exactly? |
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| Any reason this must be moved locally? Why not just track some id |
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| from the news article locally, instead of copying it? |
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| Yes this makes things a bit more funky for reading tools... but imo, |
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| the duplication is a bit wasteful. Not a huge issue, but worth |
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| considering imo. |
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I was aiming for "really really easy to write clients that read news", |
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and "really really easy to read news files using cat or less and rm". |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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