Re: [gentoo-dev] Package notices

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:42:57PM +0300, Eldad Zack wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> 
> I've got an idea to implement package notices, as opposed to
> outputing these important messages to stdout using e{info,warn,error}.
> 
> The idea is VERY simple: write the message to a file (say,
> /var/portage/notices/{P}) and have a utility to read and delete these
> messages. Maybe even build this functionality into etc-config.
> (Maybe mail these messages to a configured address?)
> 
> For ease-of-use I propose adding a simple wrapper command ("enotice" or
> "notice") that would take care of writing into the correct file.
> 
> If this looks like a good idea I'll move on and punch out the matching
> code.
> 
> Comments? Ideas?

Before you get too invalved in writing code for this, take a look at this bug.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11359

The final patch I posted to ebuild.sh (comment #103) does the first part of this -- collecting the messages in a single file, and I have been told that something similar to this will be implemented after portage 2.0.51 is released.

William

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