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 1Nq8Rf-0000Is-7k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:14:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1548CE0822; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:14:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jolexa.net (jolexa.net [69.164.197.24]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51EF9E07A7 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:14:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by jolexa.net (Postfix, from userid 101) id 0C4CF5BD74; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:14:21 +0000 (UTC) To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ebuild function to show package changelog 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 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:14:21 +0000 From: Jeremy Olexa In-Reply-To: <4B9A730E.5090007@gentoo.org> References: <1268406965.7397.40.camel@localhost> <4B9A730E.5090007@gentoo.org> Message-ID: <804f816de3e8cf639b2701ca3e93ab7d@jolexa.net> X-Sender: darkside@gentoo.org User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.3.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: c0c0cf18-5c28-461d-8eab-7db6a690b322 X-Archives-Hash: 1accd34b4c645323e4408f5d9b1eb287 On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:59:58 +0100, Matti Bickel wrote: > As an alternative, let the ebuild provide a variable that points to > upstreams online Changelog or something, so you as a human can go parse > it yourself. But then you could also just take the HOMEPAGE variable > that's already there. There is an optional tag in metadata.xml. "Should contain a URL where the location of the upstream changelog can be found. The URL must be version independent and must point to a changelog which is only updated on new releases of the corresponding package. (This also implies that one can link to an automatically updated changelog in case of vcs snapshots only.) " http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3D2&chap=3D= 4#doc_chap2 -Jeremy