Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-06 Thread expose
Daniel Drake wrote: Is the above correct? AFAIK, yes. Daniel Drake wrote: I can understand that the system may have been dreamed up with this in mind, and this certainly isn't an unreasonable design, but I don't see the corresponding text in the GLEP. Which does not seem to be a problem to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 5 May 2007 00:17:46 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 04 May 2007 17:38:43 -0500 Steev Klimaszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: otherwise, yeah, elog does the same thing already... Experience has shown that news items work in delivering this kind of information

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 5 May 2007 00:52:46 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2007 19:48:19 -0400 Dan Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That seems like a really bad road to go down. Would it not be better to extend elog to alert people at the end of an install as well?

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:49:47PM +0200, Piotr Jaroszy??ski wrote: Justification: major config format change. As of Paludis 0.24, the use of '*' to match all packages in the Paludis configuration files 'use.conf', 'keywords.conf' and 'licenses.conf' is deprecated in favour of '*/*'. You

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Maurice van der Pot
It looks like it is not clear enough what kind of news should be called critical. If for instance an upgrade from package foo-3.4 to foo-4.0 will cause the system to break unless specific steps are followed (mysql/gcc), it's obvious that it's suitable for a news item. If an upgrade from an

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 10:07:41 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What experience? So far there have been no news items. Paludis has had working news items for ages, and we've used them in the overlay. The issue about elog messages being one shot things is rather outdated (at least for

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 10:30:40 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And given that the GLEP specifically states that news items are not suposed to replace the usual postinst einfo/elog messages I'm tempted to call this an abuse of the news framework. The usual postinst messages are

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 13:44:54 +0200 Maurice van der Pot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like it is not clear enough what kind of news should be called critical. It's quite simple. If something is of sufficient interest to users who would be shown the news item that it is worth them seeing a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): On Sat, 5 May 2007 10:30:40 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And given that the GLEP specifically states that news items are not suposed to replace the usual postinst einfo/elog messages I'm tempted to call this an abuse of the news framework. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 14:53:47 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what situation? Changing * to */* is a bunch of config files (as far as I've been told, paludis warns about this deprecated syntax anyway)? If we are going to abuse critical news reporting feature for such

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): On Sat, 05 May 2007 14:53:47 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what situation? Changing * to */* is a bunch of config files (as far as I've been told, paludis warns about this deprecated syntax anyway)? If we are going to abuse critical news reporting

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:15:55 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only Paludis users will use the news item. To Paludis users, the news item is not a triviality or noise. To everyone else it's irrelevant. How does it matter exactly whether it's paludis users, gcc users, php users,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 5 May 2007 13:46:32 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 May 2007 10:30:40 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And given that the GLEP specifically states that news items are not suposed to replace the usual postinst einfo/elog messages I'm tempted to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Stephen P. Becker
What experience? So far there have been no news items. The issue about elog messages being one shot things is rather outdated (at least for portage), and post-merge information is the domain of elog (as stated in the GLEP). As Ciaran explained below, the paludis overlay has been using them

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:15:55 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does it matter exactly whether it's paludis users, gcc users, php users, apache users or whoever else who will use the news item? Let's not misuse news framework for stuff that Er, that's

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 15:28:21 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 May 2007 13:46:32 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 May 2007 10:30:40 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And given that the GLEP specifically states that news items are not

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:37:36 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not what I've been pointing out at all, you've completely snipped the important part about *unintended* use of this feature. So, once again - this is not an elog replacement and is not intended for trivial stuff (see

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Stephen P. Becker napsal(a): For example, a recent news item in the paludis overlay informed users on how to properly set everything up for userpriv with paludis-0.22, a description that was far too detailed for elog, and which I didn't have time to read the very minute that I installed the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 5 May 2007 13:45:47 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 May 2007 10:07:41 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What experience? So far there have been no news items. Paludis has had working news items for ages, and we've used them in the overlay. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:48:28 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I'm afraid that GLEP42 is missing the part that critical news reporting does not replace documentation. You seriously intend to use this feature for such stuff and force everyone to download this via rsync? You

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 15:51:25 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, but I'd hardly call _your_ experience with paludis overlay users a reliable indicator that g42 news are superior to elog for Gentoo at large. Please stop pretending that you're speaking for/about the majority of our

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On Saturday, May 5, 2007 03:23:41 PM Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [Paludis configuration: * - */*] Experience and user feedback has shown that in situations like this users want an accompanying news item even if the application does output deprecation warnings. Currently, there are two news item in

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 16:05:08 +0200 Wulf C. Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, May 5, 2007 03:23:41 PM Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [Paludis configuration: * - */*] Experience and user feedback has shown that in situations like this users want an accompanying news item even if the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:48:28 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I'm afraid that GLEP42 is missing the part that critical news reporting does not replace documentation. You seriously intend to use this feature for such stuff and force everyone to download

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 16:15:33 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You seriously intend to use elog across lots of ebuilds rather than a single news item? Yeah, I seriously think package documentation belongs to tarballs and gets installed to /usr/share/docs/${PF} - not to gentoo-x86

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On Saturday, May 5, 2007 04:14:25 PM Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Currently, there are two news item in the Paludis overlay. Unless earlier ones were removed, those two seem to be a fairly small sample to deduce anything from. They were. How many news items did you issue? (It's probably easier

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 16:40:12 +0200 Wulf C. Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, May 5, 2007 04:14:25 PM Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Currently, there are two news item in the Paludis overlay. Unless earlier ones were removed, those two seem to be a fairly small sample to deduce

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 5 May 2007 09:37:17 -0400 Stephen P. Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What experience? So far there have been no news items. The issue about elog messages being one shot things is rather outdated (at least for portage), and post-merge information is the domain of elog (as stated in

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:12:03 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a g42 news item shouldn't be issued for minor syntax changes in config files that could just as well handled completely automatically in postinst/CONFIG_PROTECT. And these changes can't be handled that way, since paludis

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Stephen Bennett napsal(a): On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:12:03 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a g42 news item shouldn't be issued for minor syntax changes in config files that could just as well handled completely automatically in postinst/CONFIG_PROTECT. And these changes can't

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 17:34:39 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Bennett napsal(a): On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:12:03 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a g42 news item shouldn't be issued for minor syntax changes in config files that could just as well handled

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 5 May 2007 16:23:53 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:12:03 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (My) Experience has also shown that gentoo-x86/portage users like the elog features in portage, so stop with those games, they don't get us

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:44:46 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why did I knew that this argument would come? Maybe because it's your default reaction to any opposition. What, providing evidence to the contrary? What more do you want? -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Alec Warner
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:44:46 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why did I knew that this argument would come? Maybe because it's your default reaction to any opposition. What, providing evidence to the contrary? What more do you want? This is such a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 16:51 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:44:46 +0200 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why did I knew that this argument would come? Maybe because it's your default reaction to any opposition. What, providing evidence to the contrary? What more

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 5 May 2007 13:44:54 +0200 Maurice van der Pot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like it is not clear enough what kind of news should be called critical. It's quite simple. If something is of sufficient interest to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 17:08:50 + Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're arguing this news item will only be shown to paludis users, but you're forgetting that paludis users also use many other packages in the tree. Assume user X has many packages on his system including

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:21:47PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: So the only important question is whether the news items are useful for the people who will see them. In this case we know the answer is yes. No one answered my question asked in Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] what paludis actually

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread expose
Have there been news items yet, which mentioned changes in config files, which did (as far as i understood it) not break the directly next version which is upgraded too, but just made a bunch of warnings arise that the config file uses the old format which now is deprecated, telling the user to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread expose
Wernfried Haas wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:21:47PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: So the only important question is whether the news items are useful for the people who will see them. In this case we know the answer is yes. No one answered my question asked in Message-ID: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 19:34:22 +0200 Wernfried Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:21:47PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: So the only important question is whether the news items are useful for the people who will see them. In this case we know the answer is yes. No one

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On Saturday, May 5, 2007 07:46:47 PM Ciaran McCreesh wrote: It warns noisily. It doesn't say how to fix it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [WARNING] In program paludis -ip kdelibs: ... When making environment from specification '': ... When loading paludis configuration: ... When reading licenses file

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:46:47PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: It warns noisily. Then it's not even close to being broken and i don't see the need for a news item. It doesn't say how to fix it. I'm sure that can be arranged even without a news item. Imho the whole GLEP process is being

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 21:18:38 +0200 Wernfried Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:46:47PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: It warns noisily. Then it's not even close to being broken and i don't see the need for a news item. You don't use Paludis. Paludis users do see the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 08:29:14PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: You don't use Paludis. Irrelevant to the issue at hand. We're discussing the (ab-)use of the news system, not my personal choice of package manager. Paludis users do see the need for a news item. Not the question if paludis

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): On Sat, 5 May 2007 21:18:38 +0200 Wernfried Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:46:47PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: It warns noisily. Then it's not even close to being broken and i don't see the need for a news item. You don't use

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 22:00:27 +0200 Wernfried Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paludis users do see the need for a news item. Not the question if paludis users see the need. Not even the question if i see the need. The point is that GLEP 42 doesn't. GLEP 42 is designed to deliver important

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:03:08 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, then frankly feed those news to your overlay users A good number of Paludis users don't use the overlay. Because the above is clearly stupid - what are you really after here, may I ask? I guess amne is right here.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): On Sat, 5 May 2007 22:00:27 +0200 Wernfried Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paludis users do see the need for a news item. Not the question if paludis users see the need. Not even the question if i see the need. The point is that GLEP 42 doesn't. GLEP 42 is

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:19:27 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): On Sat, 5 May 2007 22:00:27 +0200 Wernfried Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paludis users do see the need for a news item. Not the question if paludis users see the need. Not even the question

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:19:27 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): On Sat, 5 May 2007 22:00:27 +0200 Wernfried Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paludis users do see the need for a news item. Not the question if paludis users see the

Re: [PROCTORS] [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:27:41PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:19:27 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, is this the 'how stupid this thread can become' contest? No, it's about delivering the best experience we can to end users. If you're wanting to find a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:37:37 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erm, not really? This is about proper usage of GLEP42 stuff. Yes, it is about proper usage of GLEP 42. This news item is one example of that. There's nothing critical about your * stuff. Sure there is. If users aren't

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread expose
Am Samstag 05 Mai 2007 22:44 schrieb Ciaran McCreesh: On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:37:37 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erm, not really? This is about proper usage of GLEP42 stuff. Yes, it is about proper usage of GLEP 42. This news item is one example of that. There's nothing

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread George Prowse
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:03:08 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, then frankly feed those news to your overlay users A good number of Paludis users don't use the overlay. Because the above is clearly stupid - what are you really after here, may I ask? I

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): There's nothing critical about your * stuff. Sure there is. If users aren't informed about the change in an appropriate manner, the users get annoyed. You're trying to sabotage this based upon arguments over wording technicalities. Where is your evidence that

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread expose
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:37:37 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erm, not really? This is about proper usage of GLEP42 stuff. Yes, it is about proper usage of GLEP 42. This news item is one example of that. There's nothing critical about your * stuff. Sure

Re: [PROCTORS] [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:54:08PM +0100, George Prowse wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:03:08 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, then frankly feed those news to your overlay users A good number of Paludis users don't use the overlay. Because the above is

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:56:58 +0200 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not trying to sabotage anything but total misuse of the feature. Would have the same objections wrt whatever other critical news that'd constitute completely inappropriate usage of GLEP42 features. (And I'd expect that

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Maurice van der Pot
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:44:35PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: There's nothing critical about your * stuff. Sure there is. If users aren't informed about the change in an appropriate manner, the users get annoyed. There's a lot of subjectivity in this sentence... appropriate... annoyed...

[PROCTORS] Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Piotr Jaroszy?ski wrote: Hello, Thanks to zmedico we now have support for news items on infra-side and heck they are ready to use. And we should use them! Attaching news item for paludis 0.24. Justification: major config format change.

Re: [PROCTORS] Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: Piotr Jaroszy?ski wrote: Hello, Thanks to zmedico we now have support for news items on infra-side and heck they are ready to use. And we should use them! Attaching news item for paludis 0.24.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Daniel Drake
I've tried to divide up the various things being discussed here. Regarding paludis: - The syntax change in question affects =paludis-0.24 - The old syntax is still accepted - A warning message is printed to the console by paludis when the old (deprecated) syntax is detected - The

[gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
Hello, Thanks to zmedico we now have support for news items on infra-side and heck they are ready to use. And we should use them! Attaching news item for paludis 0.24. Justification: major config format change. -- Best Regards, Piotr Jaroszyński Title: Changes for Paludis 0.24 Author: Piotr

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: Hello, (...) Display-If-Installed: =sys-apps/paludis-0.24 You mean Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/paludis-0.24, right? Regards, Thomas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
On Friday 04 of May 2007 23:46:39 Thomas Rösner wrote: You mean Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/paludis-0.24, right? No, I want it displayed only after installation of the new version. -- Best Regards, Piotr Jaroszyński -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: On Friday 04 of May 2007 23:46:39 Thomas Rösner wrote: You mean Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/paludis-0.24, right? No, I want it displayed only after installation of the new version. Isn't such use case just a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Alexander Færøy
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:13:12AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: Isn't such use case just a replacement for elog? I thought news were supposed to be delivered before upgrading. Also You should update your configuration files after upgrading. sounds like something one would read before

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Petteri Räty
Alexander Færøy kirjoitti: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:13:12AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: Isn't such use case just a replacement for elog? I thought news were supposed to be delivered before upgrading. Also You should update your configuration files after upgrading. sounds like something one

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Petteri Räty
Petteri Räty kirjoitti: Alexander Færøy kirjoitti: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:13:12AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: Isn't such use case just a replacement for elog? I thought news were supposed to be delivered before upgrading. Also You should update your configuration files after upgrading.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 01:30:05 +0300 Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So let's say this was a message about package foobar. If it only affects users after they upgrade it would mean that new installs would get the news item too, wouldn't it?. Yep. This situation was discussed when designing

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 01:34:37 +0300 Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah found it in the GLEP: The package manager filters the news item and, if it is relevant, marks the news item for reading. The package manager should also display a notice informing the user that there are unread news

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Petteri Räty
Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: On Sat, 05 May 2007 01:34:37 +0300 Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah found it in the GLEP: The package manager filters the news item and, if it is relevant, marks the news item for reading. The package manager should also display a notice informing the user

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Dan Meltzer
On Friday 04 May 2007 4:49:47 pm Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: Hello, Thanks to zmedico we now have support for news items on infra-side and heck they are ready to use. And we should use them! Attaching news item for paludis 0.24. Justification: major config format change. How does this fit the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 05 May 2007 01:30:05 +0300 Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So let's say this was a message about package foobar. If it only affects users after they upgrade it would mean that new installs would get the news

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 4 May 2007 18:50:00 -0400 Dan Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does this fit the following parts of the GLEP? Preemptive Preemptiveness is not a requirement for this particular news item. It's necessary in many places but not this one. Additionally, what about this is so

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 00:56:35 +0200 Vlastimil Babka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/paludis-0.24 Will encourage users who don't have 0.24 installed to make the change, which will break. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Færøy wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:13:12AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: Isn't such use case just a replacement for elog? I thought news were supposed to be delivered before upgrading. Also You should update your configuration files

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 04 May 2007 17:38:43 -0500 Steev Klimaszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right which... seems to me something I would want to know *BEFORE* I upgraded... No no, if you find out before you upgrade you preemptively change your config files and the old version breaks. If you find out

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 01:47:07 +0300 Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can there be new messages with emerge --pretend if emerge --sync is the only way to get them? Should be saying unread messages and it would be clear to me. A new message is one that hasn't been read. -- Ciaran

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Dan Meltzer
On Friday 04 May 2007 6:58:44 pm Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2007 18:50:00 -0400 Dan Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does this fit the following parts of the GLEP? Preemptive Preemptiveness is not a requirement for this particular news item. It's necessary in many places

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 4 May 2007 19:48:19 -0400 Dan Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That seems like a really bad road to go down. Would it not be better to extend elog to alert people at the end of an install as well? Doesn't help. It's only there once, and it's easy to ignore. Users don't have to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Dan Meltzer
On Friday 04 May 2007 8:01:58 pm Dan Meltzer wrote: On Friday 04 May 2007 7:52:46 pm Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2007 19:48:19 -0400 Dan Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That seems like a really bad road to go down. Would it not be better to extend elog to alert people at

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 4 May 2007 20:01:58 -0400 Dan Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't help. It's only there once, and it's easy to ignore. Users don't have to explicitly mark it as read, so it's frequently not read. elog is not an adequate solution. Emm, That would depend upon the viewer I'd