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On 27/08/2013 22:19, Jarry wrote: |
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> On 27-Aug-13 21:59, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On 27/08/2013 18:35, Jarry wrote: |
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>>> I'd like to stop receiving news, how can I do that? |
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>>> Or better said, I'd like to receive gentoo-news only |
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>>> on one of my 6 servers, and turn this feature off |
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>>> on remaining 5... |
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>> It's in the mail headers: |
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>> <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@l.g.o> |
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>> you would obviously use -news and not -user |
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> I probably did not express myself correctly. What I mean |
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> is portage-news. News I get sometimes after "emerge --sync". |
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> Not news-mailinglist... |
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Ah, that makes more sense ;-) |
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I *did* wonder why you hadn't thought to read the headers! |
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from the GLEP: |
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Users who really don't care about news items can use rsync_excludes to |
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filter out the metadata/news/ directory. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0042.html |
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man 5 make.conf also documents FEATURES=news |
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Oddly enough, we all know how to enable FEATURES (just add to the list), |
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but I have no idea how to disable them! |
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I don't have news in my FEATURES but I do get the newsitems. Is |
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FEATURES=-news |
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even valid sysntax? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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