On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 16:12, Eldad Zack wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 21:56, Alexander Gretencord wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 September 2004 20:46, Christian Gut wrote:
> > > another idea: simply hand them over to syslog. This way they get mailed
> > > to the admin and are there for later reference.
> > 
> > Just read Bug #11359 (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11359). This has 
> > also been discussed there and is only an option for already installed 
> > systems.
> 
> > In short: The basic mechnism has to work without eMail and without syslog or 
> > any other fancy stuff. Just think of a bootstrap build, where no such thing 
> > is available.
> 
> What I had in mind could be deployed today, without needing to patch
> portage.
> Basically, it could be implemented using a new eclass or just adding the
> enotice function to eutils - I wouldn't want all the einfos logged,
> anyway. (patching notices? no thanks.)
> 
> What I would like, would be messages from packages like cacti.
> enotice itself will write into the file and emit an einfo.
> 
> This is what I had in mind:
> 
> # void enotice(char* message)
> #
> #    write informative message (with a newline) into notice log.
> #    also emits einfo.
> #
> enotice() {
> 	einfo "${*}"
> 
> 	if [ -n "${ENOTICE_DIR}" ]
> 	then
> 		# Not checking if it ${ENOTICE_DIR} exists since
> 		# install does stat and stops if it exists.
> 		install ${ENOTICE_DIR}
> 
> 		echo "${*}" >> ${ENOTICE_DIR}/${PF}
> 	fi
> 
>         return 0
> }
> 
> To make it work it only requires that ENOTICE_DIR would be set in
> make.conf.
> 
> It is also sandbox-friendly, since it is a regular file as far as
> portage concerns - and that also makes it binary-friendly. The notices
> will be included in the binary tbz2.
> 
> The external utility to read the messages is also pretty
> straight-forward to write.
> 
> I'd like to hear from other developers if they think it is useful and if
> they plan to use it...
> I would also like to go ahead and use it for any ebuilds I currently
> maintain.

It needs to be able to support the 3 levels of enotices: einfo, ewarn,
and ecrit.

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Chris Gianelloni
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