[gentoo-user] eselect-news

[gentoo-user] eselect-news

[Daniel Iliev]

Hi,

In short: what should I do to enable eselect-news?


A friend of mine told me portage had alerted him there was news about
available xorg-server upgrade after "emerge --sync" yesterday.

I re-synced from the same mirror, but nothing happened. We both have the
same versions of portage and eselect.

sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.7 USE="-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux)"
LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB 
app-admin/eselect-1.0.11-r1 USE="bash-completion vim-syntax -doc" 0 kB
app-admin/eselect-news-20080320  0 kB


The only difference we were able to find was that his
directory /var/gentoo/news had some entries, while mine was empty.

-- 
Best regards,
Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect-news

[Justin]

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Daniel Iliev schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> In short: what should I do to enable eselect-news?
> 
> 
> A friend of mine told me portage had alerted him there was news about
> available xorg-server upgrade after "emerge --sync" yesterday.
> 
> I re-synced from the same mirror, but nothing happened. We both have the
> same versions of portage and eselect.
> 
> sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.7 USE="-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux)"
> LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB 
> app-admin/eselect-1.0.11-r1 USE="bash-completion vim-syntax -doc" 0 kB
> app-admin/eselect-news-20080320  0 kB
> 
> 
> The only difference we were able to find was that his
> directory /var/gentoo/news had some entries, while mine was empty.

You don't have to do anything.

This news was only shown if following matches


Display-If-Installed: <x11-base/xorg-server-1.5


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Re: [gentoo-user] eselect-news

[Daniel Iliev]

On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:12:04 +0200
Justin <justin@j-schmitz.net> wrote:

> Daniel Iliev schrieb:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > In short: what should I do to enable eselect-news?
> > 
--cut--
> 
> You don't have to do anything.
> 
> This news was only shown if following matches
> 
> 
> Display-If-Installed: <x11-base/xorg-server-1.5
> 

/*
 *  Wow! That was fast! 6 sec to get a response! A record
 *  perhaps? :)
 */


Where is this condition set and is it normal to get an empty news list?

eselect news list all
Unread news items:
  (none found)              
Read news items:
  (none found)          


-- 
Best regards,
Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect-news

[Justin]

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Daniel Iliev schrieb:
> On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:12:04 +0200
> Justin <justin@j-schmitz.net> wrote:
> 
>> Daniel Iliev schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In short: what should I do to enable eselect-news?
>>>
> --cut--
>> You don't have to do anything.
>>
>> This news was only shown if following matches
>>
>>
>> Display-If-Installed: <x11-base/xorg-server-1.5
>>
> 
> /*
>  *  Wow! That was fast! 6 sec to get a response! A record
>  *  perhaps? :)
>  */
> 
> 
> Where is this condition set and is it normal to get an empty news list?
> 
> eselect news list all
> Unread news items:
>   (none found)              
> Read news items:
>   (none found)          
> 
> 

/usr/portage/metadata/news/2009-04-06-x_server-1_5/2009-04-06-x_server-1_5.en.txt


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Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] eselect-news

[Daniel Iliev]

On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:33:11 +0200
Justin <justin@j-schmitz.net> wrote:

> Daniel Iliev schrieb:
> > On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:12:04 +0200
> > Justin <justin@j-schmitz.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> Daniel Iliev schrieb:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> In short: what should I do to enable eselect-news?
> >>>
> > --cut--
> >> You don't have to do anything.
> >>
> >> This news was only shown if following matches
> >>
> >>
> >> Display-If-Installed: <x11-base/xorg-server-1.5
> >>
--cut--
> > 
> > Where is this condition set and is it normal to get an empty news
> > list?
> > 
> > eselect news list all
> > Unread news items:
> >   (none found)              
> > Read news items:
> >   (none found)          
> > 
> > 
> 
> /usr/portage/metadata/news/2009-04-06-x_server-1_5/2009-04-06-x_server-1_5.en.txt
> 

Thanks a lot, Justin!

-- 
Best regards,
Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] eselect-news

[Justin]

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Daniel Iliev schrieb:
> On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:33:11 +0200
> Justin <justin@j-schmitz.net> wrote:
> 
>> Daniel Iliev schrieb:
>>> On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:12:04 +0200
>>> Justin <justin@j-schmitz.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Daniel Iliev schrieb:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> In short: what should I do to enable eselect-news?
>>>>>
>>> --cut--
>>>> You don't have to do anything.
>>>>
>>>> This news was only shown if following matches
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Display-If-Installed: <x11-base/xorg-server-1.5
>>>>
> --cut--
>>> Where is this condition set and is it normal to get an empty news
>>> list?
>>>
>>> eselect news list all
>>> Unread news items:
>>>   (none found)              
>>> Read news items:
>>>   (none found)          
>>>
>>>
>> /usr/portage/metadata/news/2009-04-06-x_server-1_5/2009-04-06-x_server-1_5.en.txt
>>
> 
> Thanks a lot, Justin!
> 
Always a pleasure!


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Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] eselect-news

[Alejandro]

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2009/4/7 Justin <justin@j-schmitz.net>

> Daniel Iliev schrieb:
> > On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:33:11 +0200
> > Justin <justin@j-schmitz.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Daniel Iliev schrieb:
> >>> On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:12:04 +0200
> >>> Justin <justin@j-schmitz.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Daniel Iliev schrieb:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In short: what should I do to enable eselect-news?
> >>>>>
> >>> --cut--
> >>>> You don't have to do anything.
> >>>>
> >>>> This news was only shown if following matches
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Display-If-Installed: <x11-base/xorg-server-1.5
> >>>>
> > --cut--
> >>> Where is this condition set and is it normal to get an empty news
> >>> list?
> >>>
> >>> eselect news list all
> >>> Unread news items:
> >>>   (none found)
> >>> Read news items:
> >>>   (none found)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> /usr/portage/metadata/news/2009-04-06-x_server-1_5/2009-04-06-x_server-1_5.en.txt
> >>
> >
> > Thanks a lot, Justin!
> >
> Always a pleasure!
>
> This one is a great feature! Years using Gentoo and this is the first time
i see something like this. for how Gentoo works this option is more than
usefull
Thnaks for the devs for this!

Cheers!

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Re: [gentoo-user] eselect-news

[Dale]

Daniel Iliev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In short: what should I do to enable eselect-news?
>
>
> A friend of mine told me portage had alerted him there was news about
> available xorg-server upgrade after "emerge --sync" yesterday.
>
> I re-synced from the same mirror, but nothing happened. We both have the
> same versions of portage and eselect.
>
> sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.7 USE="-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux)"
> LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB 
> app-admin/eselect-1.0.11-r1 USE="bash-completion vim-syntax -doc" 0 kB
> app-admin/eselect-news-20080320  0 kB
>
>
> The only difference we were able to find was that his
> directory /var/gentoo/news had some entries, while mine was empty.
>
>   

This is not working for me either.  Is this a option that I have to
enable in make.conf or something?  I did my sync last Saturday so it may
be that the news was after I sync'ed and I missed it.

root@smoker / # eselect news list
Unread news items:
  (none found)
Read news items:
  (none found)
root@smoker / #

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect-news

[Sebastian Günther]

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* Dale (rdalek1967@gmail.com) [07.04.09 15:58]:
> 
> This is not working for me either.  Is this a option that I have to
> enable in make.conf or something?  I did my sync last Saturday so it may
> be that the news was after I sync'ed and I missed it.
> 

read the whole thread, dale:

These news are, logically, in /usr/portage/metadata/news/

I bet you can find them there. 

> root@smoker / # eselect news list
>
> Unread news items:
>   (none found)
> Read news items:
>   (none found)
> root@smoker / #
> 

Are you using tetex? Are you using xorg-server < 1.5?

I bet not, so no news for you...

> Thanks.
> 
> Dale
> 

Sebastian

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Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] eselect-news

[KH]

>
>
> This one is a great feature! Years using Gentoo and this is the first
> time i see something like this. for how Gentoo works this option is
> more than usefull
> Thnaks for the devs for this!
>
> Cheers!
>

+1
kh

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect-news

[Dale]

Sebastian Günther wrote:
> * Dale (rdalek1967@gmail.com) [07.04.09 15:58]:
>   
>> This is not working for me either.  Is this a option that I have to
>> enable in make.conf or something?  I did my sync last Saturday so it may
>> be that the news was after I sync'ed and I missed it.
>>
>>     
>
> read the whole thread, dale:
>
> These news are, logically, in /usr/portage/metadata/news/
>
> I bet you can find them there. 
>   

I saw something in there about SPARC which is not me.  I'm x86 here. 

>   
>> root@smoker / # eselect news list
>>
>> Unread news items:
>>   (none found)
>> Read news items:
>>   (none found)
>> root@smoker / #
>>
>>     
>
> Are you using tetex? Are you using xorg-server < 1.5?
>
> I bet not, so no news for you...
>
>   
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>>     
>
> Sebastian
>
>   

I'm not using it yet but from what I have read it is coming pretty
fast.  I also subscribe to -dev so I saw it there.  I would hope it
would warn me BEFORE it upgraded instead of after.  After all, if it
borks my system then tells me, that's not good.

Jeepers, another command to remember.  :-p 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect-news

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:42:19 -0500, Dale wrote:

> > These news are, logically, in /usr/portage/metadata/news/
> >
> > I bet you can find them there. 
> >     
> 
> I saw something in there about SPARC which is not me.  I'm x86 here. 

That's why you didn't get the message. Only relevant news items are
displayed. If you don't have foo-1.1 installed, you won't see the
warnings about upgrading it to foo-1.2.


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Re: [gentoo-user] eselect-news

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:42:19 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>   
>>> These news are, logically, in /usr/portage/metadata/news/
>>>
>>> I bet you can find them there. 
>>>     
>>>       
>> I saw something in there about SPARC which is not me.  I'm x86 here. 
>>     
>
> That's why you didn't get the message. Only relevant news items are
> displayed. If you don't have foo-1.1 installed, you won't see the
> warnings about upgrading it to foo-1.2.
>
>
>   

Just to make sure my light bulb is burning correctly, after I upgrade I
can see the message or after I sync and use eselect the message will
appear?  I'm trying to figure out if the horse is in front of the cart
or behind it.  o_O

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect-news

[Eray Aslan]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:21:12PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> Just to make sure my light bulb is burning correctly, after I upgrade I
> can see the message or after I sync and use eselect the message will
> appear?  I'm trying to figure out if the horse is in front of the cart
> or behind it.  o_O

After sync, you will get a reminder that there is a news item.  Then you
"eselect news list" to see what it is.

Pretty neat if you ask me.

-- 
Eray

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect-news

[Dale]

Eray Aslan wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:21:12PM -0500, Dale wrote:
>   
>> Just to make sure my light bulb is burning correctly, after I upgrade I
>> can see the message or after I sync and use eselect the message will
>> appear?  I'm trying to figure out if the horse is in front of the cart
>> or behind it.  o_O
>>     
>
> After sync, you will get a reminder that there is a news item.  Then you
> "eselect news list" to see what it is.
>
> Pretty neat if you ask me.
>
>   

If my light bulb is glowing correctly, this is VERY neat.  It's neat
that portage will tell me there is a news item and then I can go look.

Something I just thought of tho.  I usually sync this way:  eix-sync &&
emerge -uvDNf world then go to bed.  I'm going to assume that message is
going to be after eix syncs but before it does the fetch thing.  Would
that be correct?  If so, I need to check for the news before I go with
the update.  If not, then that is cool too.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

P. S. I subscribe to -announce.  Why don't they use that to announce new
features so we know?  It could be send only with no replies allowed.