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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes: |
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> On 26/12/2016 20:24, lee wrote: |
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>> Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> writes: |
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>>> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 8:52 PM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote: |
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>>>> I didn't see portage or anything else give me any instructions or |
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>>>> warnings about this. The names just suddenly changed, and that screwed |
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>>>> things up. |
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>>> https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2013-03-29-udev-upgrade.html |
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>>> This shows up in eselect news list (and so on), and portage will tell |
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>> I never use that because I find it very awkward. Why doesn't portage |
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>> just send me the news by email? |
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> It will if you set it up that way. |
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Oh I should do that then. |
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> It's not a default because portage |
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> doesn't know your email address (unless you want to deliver mail locally |
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> to root's mbox) |
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It could simply ask me. Now I need to figure out how to make it send |
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mails. |
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>>> you when you have unread news items. Note that it only shows up if |
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>>> you have <udev-201 installed, but all news is in that repository. |
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>>> Generally you want to read those BEFORE you go installing packages, |
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>>> since it may pertain to a package you're about to update. |
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>> Updating usually affects over 200 packages. What's a good way to read |
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>> the news in advance? |
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> I think you are conflating news with something else, perhaps elogs. Rich |
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> means to run "eselect news list". |
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Yes, and that doesn't show me news before I sync, or does it? |
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