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 1LrXKj-0000Bp-G0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:56:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 01A0CE0502; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:56:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED34E0502 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:56:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 530BF65963 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:56:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.56 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.56 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.039, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sQmHdGiLI19z for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:56:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB30644FD for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:56:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LrXKV-0005nK-G5 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:56:35 +0000 Received: from pool-173-71-204-106.clppva.fios.verizon.net ([173.71.204.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:56:35 +0000 Received: from en.ABCD by pool-173-71-204-106.clppva.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:56:35 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: ABCD Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you? Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:56:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1238964316.13958.82.camel@mayo.local> <200904061116.37990.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <1239193500.9186.10.camel@mayo.local> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-71-204-106.clppva.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090328) In-Reply-To: <1239193500.9186.10.camel@mayo.local> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 401e45bd-5c07-44c5-8f62-e729233a6b03 X-Archives-Hash: 392528bcc542ac078e1a514d66125e5e -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Troeder wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 11:16 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Sunday 05 April 2009 21:45:16 Daniel Troeder wrote: >> >>> When updates hit the portage tree, that are known to cause problems to >>> lots of people - why not tell that directly after the "--sync"? >> Unfortunate timing here - within 24 hours the X11 upgrade included exactly >> this feature by way of eselect news! > Oh yes - that's great :) > > I think it was triggered when I ran "emerge -pvuND world" after > "--sync". > > Unfortunately I had other things on my mind at that time, so I can't > remember well. > * Is there a way to reproduce the event? > * Where can I find old "news"? With "eselect news read all" I get > nothing. Did I maybe "purge" it?... that brings me back to my first > question :) > > > Seems like some of my wishes have already become true :) > > Bye, > Daniel > All news, whether or not it is relevant or has been seen, is shipped with the portage tree in files named like: ${PORTDIR}/metadata/news/${YYYY}-${MM}-${DD}-${TITLE}/ ${YYYY}-${MM}-${DD}-${TITLE}.${LANGUAGE}.txt For example, the xorg upgrade announcement is in ${PORTDIR}/metadata/news/2009-04-06-x_server-1_5/ 2009-04-06-x_server-1_5.en.txt and the teTeX to TeXLive migration announcement is in ${PORTDIR}/metadata/news/2009-04-06-tetex/2009-04-06-tetex.en.txt (note that ${PORTDIR} is /usr/portage on most systems, unless you changed it in /etc/make.conf) Therefore, no matter what you do, so long as you do not delete the portage tree itself (and if you do, just `emerge --sync`), you will have a copy of every news item published (all 4 of them, so far), as of your last sync. - -- ABCD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkncnuQACgkQOypDUo0oQOr3qACeMIeQhLEh4LxvAqj36rUWN9EG 69EAnj7LZ/0UpuS3gdMYRhmJ74x8q5kN =+Did -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----