On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:17:38AM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > On 14/7/2005 7:24:03, Craig Lawson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [...] To be more concrete, I'm thinking of something like a database [...] > I don't think a separate database is a good idea; too many sources for > information. How about using metadata.xml? I'd think this data is ideally suited for it. It's metadata about the package, and it's already distributed with the tree.
> > [...] For example [...] > > current: any > > target: =gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.10.0 > > advisory: Menu editing disabled until follow-up release. > > Work-around is to install Python 4 + smeg. See > > forum topic http://forums.gentoo.org/blah... > > How about adding: > > ADVICE="Menu editing disabled until follow-up release. > Work-around is to install Python 4 + smeg. See > forum topic http://forums.gentoo.org/blah..."; > > to the gnome-menus-2.10.0 ebuild (sorry Chris, no parsing needed :} ). > It'd be trivial to knock up a widget to extract and display this data, > and I'd guess trivial to add an '--advice' option to emerge to do the > same. Perhaps it'd be simpler just to include it alongside the > changelog data with the '--changelog' option. Putting it in the ebuild becomes a bit complex when you want to include lots of text, or if you want to display a message for a specific downgrade or something else like that. Basically while you have the 'target' attribute, you have no way to specify the 'current' attribute, and you can't have multiple advisories per ebuild. metadata.xml variant: <pkgmetadata><advisory target="=gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.10.0"> Menu editing disabled until follow-up release. Work-around is to install Python 4 + smeg. See forum topic http://forums.gentoo.org/blah... </advisory></pkgmetadata> ('current' attribute defaulting to any version, and both the 'target' and 'current' attributes should be full package atoms.) > Of course such advice could be just written into the changelog in the first > place... The problem is that users complain and don't read the changelog, since it's too long. They want only specific advisories that are needed, not every little change notice. -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2 ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639 GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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