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 1Eaa2s-0000BN-M4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:38:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jABEaU1C022210; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:36:30 GMT Received: from callisto.cs.kun.nl (callisto.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.75]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jABEWxt9000540 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:32:59 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by callisto.cs.kun.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 435F22E80D5 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:33:25 +0100 (CET) From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:33:24 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.92 References: <20051105005814.0de0d8ff@snowdrop.home> <1131664348.8511.95.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> <20051110233506.5d9b98e0@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051110233506.5d9b98e0@snowdrop.home> X-Face: #Lb+'V@sGJ;ptgo5}V"W+5OCoo{LZv;bh,s,`WKLi/J)ed1_$0;6X<=?utf-8?q?700LVV/=3BLqPhiDP=5E=0A=09=27f=5Dfnv?=@%6M8\'HR1t=aFx;ePfp{ZQoBe+e)JOQ8T5*(_;mHY+cltLGq<;@$Y,=?utf-8?q?O=5C=24=0A=09Tm=23G6M?=,g![Q62J{na*S9d;R[^8pc%u\aiLqU@`kJtYl"^6pxdW 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="nextPart2461197.zuil1VP523"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200511111533.24890.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: da616796-ca56-4dfc-89b2-6bda6475411f X-Archives-Hash: 8875093c8efa80ac5a0d471e1d64c4f8 --nextPart2461197.zuil1VP523 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 11 November 2005 00:35, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:12:28 +0000 Stuart Herbert > > wrote: > | Should the GLEP explain how Portage will know how many unread news > | items there are in /var/lib/gentoo/news? I couldn't spot where this > | is covered in the text, or in the example code. > > Well, I was going to go with the plain but simple "once you've read it, > delete it" approach, but some people didn't like that. Next draft will > propose being able to append .read to a filename to mark it read > without deleting it. Either way, it's just a case of looking > for ????-??-??-*.??.txt, chopping off the .??.txt, removing duplicates > and counting. If you don't delete it, we might still have a supersedes header that=20 indicates that one news item overrides another one. This would also be=20 useful for a web version that contains a full archive of all news items. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --nextPart2461197.zuil1VP523 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDdKu0bKx5DBjWFdsRAkuNAJ93o+AC5+/lAZ54YHO3ULzorV03agCdE3ZF 7rs4+Jg/cJqioO/8eLByiew= =LyhP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2461197.zuil1VP523-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list