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 1EXPc8-0000TL-Gg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:53:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA2KqcYA032228; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 20:52:38 GMT Received: from stoneshaft.ath.cx (212.199.9.99.static.012.net.il [212.199.9.99]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA2KnSeq005246 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 20:49:28 GMT Received: from 212.199.9.99.static.012.net.il (212.199.9.99.static.012.net.il [212.199.9.99]) by stoneshaft.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4C752DA503 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 22:49:28 +0200 (IST) From: Eldad Zack To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 22:49:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <20051101015125.1cc45eb4@snowdrop.home> <20051101122657.2d06d9e5@snowdrop.home> <11710324670.20051101133924@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <11710324670.20051101133924@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5648917.6vltbBADbi"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200511022249.27125.eldad@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 304f0901-2a58-4133-981c-eb0bc7b7953d X-Archives-Hash: 2cb7e0246c519369a950631a81e671d1 --nextPart5648917.6vltbBADbi Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1255" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 01 November 2005 14:39, Jakub Moc wrote: > 1.11.2005, 13:26:57, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:16:03 +0100 Thierry Carrez > > > > wrote: > > | For them to know about it, they need to be warned when they do their > > | "emerge -p world" or "emerge -a mysql" that the upgrade is not as easy > > | as it seems. People using a cron job to sync are probably a > > | significant part of our user base... > > > > Have Portage give a red flashy before emerge if there're unread news > > items? > > > > Although, a better solution for users who cron sync would be to have > > said cron mail them all the relevant news files... > > Uhm... emerge sync is a *bad* time to display upgrade messages, it's simp= ly > irrelevant at that time, I'm not upgrading anything at the moment and mig= ht > not be upgrading for next week or so. > > The messages should be displayed when I'm about to upgrade an ebuild which > has an upgrade note associated with the new version. Sending mail via cron > might be a nice optional feature for those who want to use it. I think cron as suggested hit the spot here. I do the same with glsa-check = =2Dt=20 all to notify me about security issues present on my system. =2D-=20 Eldad Zack Key/Fingerprint at pgp.mit.edu, ID 0x96EA0A93 --nextPart5648917.6vltbBADbi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDaSZXT+MN7JbqCpMRAgVyAJwNQymafzVl9Y5uQK7oKiXnYCE8zQCfUn1J LadXLt2XML8WbAFsa2MeUL4= =npyd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5648917.6vltbBADbi-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list