On Saturday 05 November 2005 06:08, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> Why does `emerge --changelog` not suffice for package-specific news?
>From a user/sys.admin point of view let me give you an example;
I maintain quite a lot Gentoo-systems. For me it's impossible to read _every_
changelog for minor release changes. For example not so long ago Apache was
upgraded from 2.0.54-r15 to 2.0.54-r31. For me as a user/sys.admin based on
versionnumbers this is a minor change. However the changes were rather
extensive (e.g. reorganization of conf.files).
When these changes occur I want to be informed _before_ I start emerge and I
think that this information should be _pushed_ to users/sys.admins instead of
_pulled_ from external sources (forums, website, mailinglist, etc. or
changelogs).
If changelogs could be extended with a priority flag and emerge would notify
me when a high priority changelog is applicable to my system then this would
be just fine for me. Basically all I want is;
Notification that new relevant news items will be displayed via the
``emerge`` tool in a similar way to the existing "configuration files need
updating" messages:
::
* Important: 3 config files in /etc need updating.
* Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files.
* Important: there are 2 security advisories released for installed
packages.
* Type emerge --security to see the details.
* Important: there are 5 unread news items.
* Type emerge --help news to learn how to read news files.
If this is possible by extending the changelog I'm a happy users/sys.admin. I
don't care if I need to type emerge --news or emerge --changelog as long the
information is pushed.
Disclaimer; I'm not 100% sure that the versionnumbers from Apache mentioned
above are exact the real world examples, but you get the idea.
Regards,
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