From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MVy7G-0004Ta-UE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:38:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE4A9E049C; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:38:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA523E049C for ; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:38:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.isohunt.com (b01.ext.isohunt.com [208.71.112.51]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25DFE65419 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:38:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 7057 invoked from network); 29 Jul 2009 01:38:00 -0000 Received: from tsi-static.orbis-terrarum.net (HELO curie.orbis-terrarum.net) (76.10.188.108) (smtp-auth username robbat2@isohunt.com, mechanism login) by mail.isohunt.com (qpsmtpd/0.33-dev on beta01) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA; Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:38:00 +0000 Received: (qmail 9321 invoked by uid 10000); 28 Jul 2009 18:37:29 -0700 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:37:29 -0700 From: "Robin H. Johnson" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2009-07-26 23h59 UTC Message-ID: <20090729013729.GB7151@orbis-terrarum.net> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4e3ec51c-77f5-4940-92db-3723e6f3e493 X-Archives-Hash: 6641d51de634fc84788892efddb14c34 On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 08:29:03PM -0400, James Cloos wrote: > It would be a bit easier to read if there were a third section in > the tracker for renames, rather than having them in the Removals > and Additions sections. The detection tool runs solely based on the CVSROOT 'History' file. Based on that alone, we cannot detect a rename reliably. If something gets renamed or removed in quick sucession, the updates tracking files can be out of date as well > Obviously the syntax of each line would have to be different; perhaps > something like the {old=E2=87=92new} syntax would allow each change to = be on > a single line in a (human+machine)-readable fashion? Two sets of output are already provide. One for humans, and one for machines. P.S. I am on the mailing list, you do not need to CC me. --=20 Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy E-Mail : robbat2@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85