From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nq6XI-0006mp-Mr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:12:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C5A4E0B43; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:12:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F4DE073A for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:12:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.0.10] (unknown [81.193.81.254]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D617C1B410E for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:12:03 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ebuild function to show package changelog From: Angelo Arrifano To: Gentoo Developers Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Gentoo Linux (embedded) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:16:05 +0100 Message-ID: <1268406965.7397.40.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 978bd037-e862-4543-b85a-71c5cd94ff40 X-Archives-Hash: 2f13f2cc140a9a4c68070f7f7824288c Hello all, [Speaking as user] I find myself many times stumbling through package ChangeLogs to see what is new/changed after a emerge -u world. As some of you might agree, this is time consuming. What do you people think on a new pkg_changelog function that would instruct the ebuild how to retrieve this kind of information from the package? Most of packages have a somewhat standard place for it in the source tree, so I guess a default pkg_changelog function could, in theory, be implemented. This function could be then called at user request by means of e.g. emerge --showchangelog or at the end of emerge update (controlled through a FEATURES="show-changelog" or something). I know we are all busy with a lot of things and I know what Gentoo don't really need right now is more cruft in the ebuilds (just think on QA!). Regards, -- Angelo Arrifano AKA MiKNiX Gentoo Embedded/OMAP850 Developer Linwizard Developer http://www.gentoo.org/~miknix http://miknix.homelinux.com