[gentoo-dev] Improving Portage Watch script

[Rafael Cordones Marcos <rcm@sasaska.net>]

Hi,

I want to improve the current script that generates the Portage Watch section 
in GWN. The two problems I am focusing right now are:

1.- Listing the USE variables that were added or removed since a given date.

I have been looking around Portage but I cannot find any ChangeLog where I can 
get this info. A /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc ChangeLog would be perfect!

2.- Differentiating between updated packages and new packages

For this I think I can manage by looking at the last entry of the ChangeLog 
file and extracting the date from it. Example:
/usr/portage/app-cdr/k3b/ChangeLog

<file-contents>
[...]
*k3b-0.5.1 (1 Feb 2002)

  1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin <gbevin@gentoo.org> ChangeLog :

[...]
</file-contents>

One more thing, are ChangeLog files in packages automagically generated from 
CVS or are they hand-edited by developers? If they are hand edited then I am 
going to find errors in the format. I mean that humans commit errors and, for 
instance, some dev can forget to write the "*" at the begining of a ChangeLog 
entry!

Thanks for your time!

/Rafa

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