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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.
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