On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 01:50:27 -0500 (EST), Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>
> > I think it would be useful to have an ebuild thing for "upgrading to
> > this package from version {expression} requires the following steps",
> > such that the message will be displayed only if you're doing that, and
> > such that the upgrade will be masked if you're being conservative in
> > upgrading.
>
> It already does, with has_version. Look at the pkg_setup() part of the
> postfix ebuild for an example of this in use.
Perhaps it just needs to be more popular, or maybe it needs to understand
slots better (in order to be popular). I know that all of the kernels I
install tell me that support for devfs was removed long before the oldest
kernel available in portage as of when I installed the machine.
It also doesn't look like it's something where it would be able to choose
to upgrade postfix 2.2.10 to 2.2.10-r1 instead of to 2.3.5 because 2.3.5
would require help and 2.2.10-r1 is automatic.
-Daniel
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