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 1Nq6uQ-0000jq-R6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:36:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C87ADE0B05; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:36:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com (qw-out-1920.google.com [74.125.92.148]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2103FE0AA7 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:36:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 14so383737qwa.10 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:36:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:received:date:from:to :subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=MZJMvjFlFrFHUzMXe8Umbm+4wDxjI5pWT2ikY+Aj/xw=; b=AJ8W4rtt94V0VU700+oNmp9DqXfceXhtTa8i/srowgtBjrVYW89ad6ghCYbm6CcNua hor/PLiazG1nnoi8MYlVwk2o5mGRkZHDIgef46gyVJh0F5oWHufdwuFt24owo/SK/Yur bVOJ//xW6C/BM3GRzCHdw7NpKGA2prtqkWdio= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; b=W4Y4kR4/AShTGqBUrjZ7TOxLrFVubLutdxdhG/akdwqxSrUXCZkAZQGKvL27rjOT1q Cye8UoBJNEmgZb8++YvDWEZi/VDfNHDETKbH+m8IblZiLRtdGc9LR+oaN4W63XZjVJZo 0Kg8yf8smSfrM32v8CApe2GnGyGRrHyGAGvoI= Received: by 10.220.124.170 with SMTP id u42mr18588vcr.50.1268408036263; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:33:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from linux1 (cpe-76-183-49-63.tx.res.rr.com [76.183.49.63]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm435407yxg.12.2010.03.12.07.33.51 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:33:53 -0800 (PST) Sender: William Hubbs Received: by linux1 (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:33:50 -0600 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:33:50 -0600 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ebuild function to show package changelog Message-ID: <20100312153350.GA3970@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <1268406965.7397.40.camel@localhost> 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1268406965.7397.40.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: a37e8408-05cf-42ff-936b-9f13188469ec X-Archives-Hash: 2dc21239d3b0dd8f9381c5411d203861 --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 04:16:05PM +0100, Angelo Arrifano wrote: > Hello all, >=20 > [Speaking as user] I find myself many times stumbling through package > ChangeLogs to see what is new/changed after a emerge -u world. As some > of you might agree, this is time consuming. >=20 > What do you people think on a new pkg_changelog function that would > instruct the ebuild how to retrieve this kind of information from the > package? Most of packages have a somewhat standard place for it in the > source tree, so I guess a default pkg_changelog function could, in > theory, be implemented. >=20 > This function could be then called at user request by means of e.g. > emerge --showchangelog or at the end of emerge update (controlled > through a FEATURES=3D"show-changelog" or something). =20 Actually there is already an option for emerge to show the changelogs of packages that will be upgraded. Take a look at the --changelog option for emerge. It can be used along with --pretend to show you the changelogs of packages that will be upgraded. Thanks, William --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuaXt4ACgkQblQW9DDEZTjTEACfU+6nSaTvkJaaZNoxqav+hCBn 6OcAn1y8VZIewG661RnUbWiGzzAiRGEA =RwPA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z--