From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-dev-return-3805-arch-gentoo-dev=gentoo.org@gentoo.org> Received: (qmail 13443 invoked by uid 1002); 14 Jun 2003 17:57:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 6031 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2003 17:57:04 -0000 From: Rafael Cordones Marcos <rcm@sasaska.net> To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 19:57:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 Cc: Pablo Pita Leira <pablo.leira@pitagoral.com>, Bob Miller <kbob@jogger-egg.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306141957.01121.rcm@sasaska.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Improving Portage Watch script X-Archives-Salt: c28999bc-224f-4546-af04-07ed1f1e2825 X-Archives-Hash: 4cf8ba0659dcc153642c73547590e7a8 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 -- Rafael Cordones Marcos rcm@sasaska.net http://www.sasaska.net "La diferencia entre una democracia y una dictadura consiste en que en la democracia puedes votar antes de obedecer las ordenes." -- Bukowski, C. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list