From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EWlsf-0000GL-Ly for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:28:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA12Qs8G017555; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 02:26:54 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA12OinJ000531 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 02:24:44 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EWlpM-0000PQ-2w for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:24:44 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EWlpK-0005A3-Nu for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:24:42 +0000 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 02:24:40 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting Message-ID: <20051101022440.20e46c5f@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051101021630.GD10657@nightcrawler> References: <20051101015125.1cc45eb4@snowdrop.home> <20051101021630.GD10657@nightcrawler> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.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 Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Tue__1_Nov_2005_02_24_40_+0000_7x2w5vg74KTV2Huh; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 869f015b-5385-46be-89d1-5ec29cb93ea3 X-Archives-Hash: f8dd2bc7616511f04c391190d02e5d27 --Signature_Tue__1_Nov_2005_02_24_40_+0000_7x2w5vg74KTV2Huh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:16:30 -0600 Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org> wrote: | On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:51:25AM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > ``Posted:`` | > Date of posting, in ``dd-mmm-yyyy`` format (e.g. 14-Aug-2001). | > Mandatory. |=20 | Don't have a good arguement as to why it should be added, but utc=20 | time seems like it should be included. Ok. I nicked the Posting: header from GLEPs, which only use dates. Are posting times relevant for news items? | > ``Display-If-Installed:`` | > A dependency atom or simple package name (for example, | > ``<dev-lang/php-5_alpha`` or ``net-www/apache``). If the user | > has the package specified installed, the news item should be | > displayed. |=20 | You're going to run into issues with slotmoves for longterm... |=20 | I'd personally rather the translation/updating of the atoms specified=20 | for this field does *not* occur in portage clientside, iow it's=20 | handled server side. Would adding news/ to the "list of stuff that must be changed when you do a package move" suffice? | TODO: Display-If-Profile: ? |=20 | I'd like to kill off the deprecated profile file someday... Ok. | > News Item Display | > ----------------- | >=20 | > Whenever relevant unread news items are found, ``emerge`` will copy | > the news file into ``/var/lib/gentoo/news/``. |=20 | Expand this to address N repo's all delivering their own news=20 | please... If we have proper named repos... /var/lib/gentoo/news/repo_name/ ? What are the plans for multiple repositories exactly? | Any reason this must be moved locally? Why not just track some id=20 | from the news article locally, instead of copying it? |=20 | Yes this makes things a bit more funky for reading tools... but imo,=20 | the duplication is a bit wasteful. Not a huge issue, but worth=20 | considering imo. I was aiming for "really really easy to write clients that read news", and "really really easy to read news files using cat or less and rm". --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Tue__1_Nov_2005_02_24_40_+0000_7x2w5vg74KTV2Huh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDZtHq96zL6DUtXhERAnWwAKDMB8ocHy5K8LZmEYh9Hzr8yfv1NgCfWhbG /yJ7yOyhpYHdUl80C3MxZw0= =EQ6O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Tue__1_Nov_2005_02_24_40_+0000_7x2w5vg74KTV2Huh-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list