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 4.54) id 1ElIul-0006kQ-Ht for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:34:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBB4Xdp3010105; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:33:39 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 jBB4VovQ000417 for ; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:31:50 GMT Received: from jj039137.ppp.dion.ne.jp ([211.4.39.137] helo=opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1ElIsI-0001zz-1N for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:31:50 +0000 Received: by opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4D5AF201A48; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:32:05 +0900 (JST) From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:32:05 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <20051211013550.66bfd7d2@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051211013550.66bfd7d2@snowdrop.home> 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: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512111332.05202.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: ce82fade-2cb7-4b4c-968b-140d241c6413 X-Archives-Hash: 9070ff050914172e9207420d83294719 On Sunday 11 December 2005 10:35, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Whenever relevant unread news items are found, the package manager will > create a file named ``/var/lib/portage/news/news.unread`` (if it does not > already exist) and append the news item identifier (eg > ``2005-11-01-yoursql-updates``) on a new line. > > .. Note:: Future changes to Portage involving support for multiple > repositories may require one news list per repository. Assuming > repositories have some kind of unique identifier, this file could be named > ``news-repoid.unread``. Repositories will definitely have a unique identifier. Perhaps it would be better to use the repository-identifing format from the beginning so that readers are forced to be forwards-compatible? Assuming the readers would then output the repository name, labeling it "gentoo" should work well... > When a news item is read, its name should be removed from the > ``news.unread`` file. News clients may add the name to a ``news.read`` file > in the same directory with the same file format. news.read should either be mandatory or not created at all. Should a user change from a reader that creates and uses the file to one that doesn't and then change back again the results will be unexpected. > * Important: there are 5 unread news items. > * Type emerge --help news to learn how to read news files. [...] > An ``eselect`` [#eselect]_ module shall be created as the 'suggested' > display tool; other display tools (for example, a news to email forwarder, > which would be ideal for users who sync on a ``cron``) are left as options > for those who desire them. By "suggested" you mean that it should be referenced in the news help? -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list