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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ebuild function to show package changelog
From: Angelo Arrifano <miknix@gentoo.org>
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On Sex, 2010-03-12 at 09:33 -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 04:16:05PM +0100, Angelo Arrifano wrote:
> > 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 <atom> or at the end of emerge update (controlled
> > through a FEATURES="show-changelog" or something).
>  
>  Actually there is already an option for emerge to show the changelogs
>  of packages that will be upgraded.  Take a look at the --changelog
>  option for emerge.  It can be used along with --pretend to show you the
>  changelogs of packages that will be upgraded.

For a moment, you really tricked me into believing I've been missing
this feature. Specially by reading man emerge:
"This will show the ChangeLog entries for all the packages"
              btw: shouldn't it read "ebuilds" here? /\

What I meant originally was to show the ChangeLog of the package
(ChangeLog inside source tree), not the ebuild ChangeLog.
> 
>  Thanks,
> 
>  William
> 

Regards,
-- 
Angelo Arrifano AKA MiKNiX
Gentoo Embedded/OMAP850 Developer
Linwizard Developer
http://www.gentoo.org/~miknix
http://miknix.homelinux.com