On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Peter Bonivart <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Yes, I guess the proposal I made is similar. If we settle on a preference, I'm still willing to implement. Thanks -Ben _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
