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 4.43) id 1DxqdM-000567-3y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:28:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6RIQsqu017434; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:26:54 GMT Received: from egr.msu.edu (jeeves.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.127]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6RIO2m3004668 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:24:03 GMT Received: from [35.9.36.120] (dhcp-35-9-36-120 [35.9.36.120]) by egr.msu.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6RIONMt010534 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:24:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42E7D12C.70701@egr.msu.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:23:40 -0400 From: Alec Joseph Warner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changelogs References: <42E6EBFD.5000003@egr.msu.edu> <20050727165957.GA12602@kfk4ever.com> In-Reply-To: <20050727165957.GA12602@kfk4ever.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 57c415b9-9c5e-4de2-83b2-8bde3a08d23d X-Archives-Hash: 65f23da3612ce7abfccd9a559ff8d166 Maurice van der Pot wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:05:49PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > >>Recent discussion on this ML and on the portage-ml as well as >>#gentoo-portage regarding pkg_warn() and the basic concept behind it. >>We talked about adding new functionality, about adding a warning section >>to the ebuild or to the metadata. However. all of these tend to have >>problems. > > >>The dev won't write the extra function, > > In your proposal this would be "the dev won't write the extra changelog > content" and ... > > >>duplication of data in pkg_{post/pre}inst, > > ... "duplication of data in Changelog/pkg_post". > > > >>mangling of metadata.xml. > > I don't know what this means, but I don't think pkg_warn has this > problem. > > So I don't see any advantage of putting it in the changelog. I actually > like the pkg_warn idea much better. > > So tell me again, what does your proposal solve of the problems you see > with pkg_warn? -l support for reading changelogs is already in portage, pkg_warn support would only be in CVS which won't be out for a long time(*), and pkg_warn() doesn't fit in with the rest of the ebuild functions. This solution is done now, in the changelog, to be viewed by users. Metadata ideas were not liked because metadata is not versioned and the parsing would not be easy. * Long time being whenever, not starting a flamewar about it. > Regards, > Maurice. > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list