From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EWxNp-0001tG-Td for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:45:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA1Eh7oo025126; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:43:07 GMT Received: from smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA1Ecwjb005746 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:38:58 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id jA1Ed2MC016626 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:39:03 -0500 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:38:29 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20051101122657.2d06d9e5@snowdrop.home> References: <20051101015125.1cc45eb4@snowdrop.home> <43673CB6.1010907@gentoo.org> <20051101115843.7b2dfeeb@snowdrop.home> <43675C83.4010005@gentoo.org> <20051101122657.2d06d9e5@snowdrop.home> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-jTAdpo92HJIiTVeT0Tfl" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:38:28 -0500 Message-Id: <1130855908.26789.176.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 X-Archives-Salt: 60dbe882-48c8-45ab-a19c-ffea5b64c2f0 X-Archives-Hash: dda0838aa10a6e93ba416d81fed0ef89 --=-jTAdpo92HJIiTVeT0Tfl Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 12:26 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:16:03 +0100 Thierry Carrez > wrote: > | For them to know about it, they need to be warned when they do their > | "emerge -p world" or "emerge -a mysql" that the upgrade is not as easy > | as it seems. People using a cron job to sync are probably a > | significant part of our user base... >=20 > Have Portage give a red flashy before emerge if there're unread news > items? Or have it die unless they have I_LIKE_A_BROKEN_SYSTEM_PLEASE_IGNORE_NEWS=3D"yes" in make.conf.... ;] > Although, a better solution for users who cron sync would be to have > said cron mail them all the relevant news files... We don't have control over what they do in cron, we do have control over portage itself. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-jTAdpo92HJIiTVeT0Tfl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDZ33kkT4lNIS36YERAma6AKC/b78hF802uaVH+KIAfFJQ/vrMIACfTuEr F0b1nQp90kCGzKSzbdPNw/c= =X8Ka -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-jTAdpo92HJIiTVeT0Tfl-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list