On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 13:57, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to improve the current script that generates the Portage Watch section 
> in GWN. The two problems I am focusing right now are:
> 
> 1.- Listing the USE variables that were added or removed since a given date.
> 
> I have been looking around Portage but I cannot find any ChangeLog where I can 
> get this info. A /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc ChangeLog would be perfect!
> 2.- Differentiating between updated packages and new packages
> 
> For this I think I can manage by looking at the last entry of the ChangeLog 
> file and extracting the date from it. Example:
> /usr/portage/app-cdr/k3b/ChangeLog
> 
> <file-contents>
> [...]
> *k3b-0.5.1 (1 Feb 2002)
> 
>   1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> ChangeLog :
> 
> [...]
> </file-contents>
> 
> One more thing, are ChangeLog files in packages automagically generated from 
> CVS or are they hand-edited by developers? If they are hand edited then I am 
> going to find errors in the format. I mean that humans commit errors and, for 
> instance, some dev can forget to write the "*" at the begining of a ChangeLog 
> entry!
The Changelogs are created by a small script called echangelog, so its
pretty easy to handle :)

--Todd