From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6494 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2004 18:46:08 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 2 Sep 2004 18:46:08 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C2wb1-0003qM-8r for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 18:46:07 +0000 Received: (qmail 28639 invoked by uid 89); 2 Sep 2004 18:46:06 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 17090 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2004 18:46:06 +0000 From: Christian Gut To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1094067776.19503.9.camel@localhost> References: <1094067776.19503.9.camel@localhost> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-f5gBaco8sKhXL99Ixm5b" Message-Id: <1094150763.23959.1.camel@vertex.home.cycloon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 20:46:03 +0200 X-Authenticated-As: cycloon@is-root.org X-Authenticated-As-Hash: 01f3df807ccd9547808ac8b4ae99a0ea Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package notices X-Archives-Salt: 759e2ff9-f01f-48ea-abdc-89c08ae5bca5 X-Archives-Hash: 25148c1dcd6d58838bf68164fbe9a7f4 --=-f5gBaco8sKhXL99Ixm5b Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 21:42, Eldad Zack wrote: > Hey Guys, >=20 > I've got an idea to implement package notices, as opposed to > outputing these important messages to stdout using e{info,warn,error}. >=20 > The idea is VERY simple: write the message to a file (say, > /var/portage/notices/{P}) and have a utility to read and delete these > messages. Maybe even build this functionality into etc-config. > (Maybe mail these messages to a configured address?) >=20 > For ease-of-use I propose adding a simple wrapper command ("enotice" or > "notice") that would take care of writing into the correct file. > > Comments? Ideas? another idea: simply hand them over to syslog. This way they get mailed to the admin and are there for later reference. --=20 Christian Gut --=-f5gBaco8sKhXL99Ixm5b Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBN2pqx7jl1ui8gtARAluQAJ9ykrA07R11K0sFikv8+oH1pI+2mgCeM5tx IgxnmokoBmM/X4kQK7cNI2M= =pGif -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-f5gBaco8sKhXL99Ixm5b--