On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński <[email protected]> wrote: > 12/12/29 Ben Walton <[email protected]>: >> A very simple addition to pkgutil will make moving to a new release >> more obvious: >> >> 1. Look for $catalog_url/UPGRADE_AVAILABLE (name is for discussion >> purposes, not a real proposal). >> 2. If found, display with pause before doing new package actions. >> >> So, when we're ready to have people move from Dublin to the next >> release, we place this file and pkgutil will now tell people that > > I like the idea. It would make the catalogs a linked list. It could be > also a field in the catalog file, similar to the one with the creation > date.
Dago suggested a long time ago support for a message-of-the-day feature if files like ANNOUNCE/MOTD/CHANGES were present. We also have talked about the RELEASE feature inside the catalogs, I think that was in Kiel. The last one is already implemented in pkgutil but I don't see that we publish the RELEASE line in our catalogs. I just wanted to bring those older ideas up again. /peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
