Jason Stubbs wrote:
Repositories will be user-labelled. However, all that readers need be
concerned with is how to extract the repository name from the news.unread
file and how to then resolve that to a directory name, regardless of how
repositories are implemented.
Expanding on this a litt
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:29:00 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| Incorrect. There needs to be no GLEP regarding multiple repository
| support in portage. There may need to be a GLEP regarding splitting
| up the portage tree into separate repositories, but that is nothing
| to do with th
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 02:53:34PM -0800, John Myers wrote:
> On Sunday 11 December 2005 14:07, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> > On Sunday 11 December 2005 22:57, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > > You forgot d) a pain in the ass to parse, e) inconsistent with
> > > everything else, f) a pain in the
On Monday 12 December 2005 09:20, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:11:53 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> | Regardless of what you think about the current plans for multiple
> | repository support, the details that readers will need to know wont
> | change.
>
> Inc
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:11:53 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| Regardless of what you think about the current plans for multiple
| repository support, the details that readers will need to know wont
| change.
Incorrect. Right now, readers should ignore news-blah.unread and only
pay a
On Monday 12 December 2005 09:01, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:44:00 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> | Repositories will be user-labelled. However, all that readers need be
> | concerned with is how to extract the repository name from the
> | news.unread file
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:44:00 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| Repositories will be user-labelled. However, all that readers need be
| concerned with is how to extract the repository name from the
| news.unread file and how to then resolve that to a directory name,
| regardless of ho
On Monday 12 December 2005 02:43, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:32:05 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> | Repositories will definitely have a unique identifier. Perhaps it
> | would be better to use the repository-identifing format from the
> | beginning so that
On Sunday 11 December 2005 23:53, John Myers wrote:
> Well, if you take the entire spec with all its variations, then ciaranm's
> points there are indeed correct (week number formats, day of the year
> formats, punctuationless formats, etc.)
Well as long as you always use the same format, the sort
On Sunday 11 December 2005 14:07, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Sunday 11 December 2005 22:57, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > You forgot d) a pain in the ass to parse, e) inconsistent with
> > everything else, f) a pain in the ass to sort, g) massive overkill.
>
> I find ISO 8601 simple to sort
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
Does anyone really use emerge --ask?
Yes.
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On Sunday 11 December 2005 13:19, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:57:23 -0700 Lares Moreau
> | * Before an ``emerge --ask`` 'yes||no' response
>
> Does anyone really use emerge --ask?
I do. Almost always in fact. When I want to install a package, I use --ask
with --verbose so I g
On Sunday 11 December 2005 22:57, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> You forgot d) a pain in the ass to parse, e) inconsistent with
> everything else, f) a pain in the ass to sort, g) massive overkill.
I find ISO 8601 simple to sort
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On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:41:30 +0100 Henrik Brix Andersen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| As noted in the original GLEP 42 discussion, I strongly feel we should
| use an ISO-8601 compliant date string representation as this is both
| a) international, b) easy to read and c) machine parsable.
You forgot
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 04:57:23AM -0700, Lares Moreau wrote:
> A couple things I noted:
> (1)
> In News Item Identities we have the following date format,
> > Each news item will have a unique identifier. This identifier will be
> > in the form ``-mm-dd-short-name``
>
> Later in "News Item He
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
Does anyone really use emerge --ask?
Yes.
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On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:57:23 -0700 Lares Moreau
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Is there any reason why we can't keep all the dates in the GLEP 1 date
| format? IMHO this helps prevent confusion.
Yes. It makes sorting news items far harder.
| * Before an ``emerge --ask`` 'yes||no' response
Does a
A couple things I noted:
(1)
In News Item Identities we have the following date format,
> Each news item will have a unique identifier. This identifier will be
> in the form ``-mm-dd-short-name``
Later in "News Item Headers" we have an other in order to be compatable
with GLEP 1.
> ``Posted:``
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> GLEP: 42
> Title: Critical News Reporting
+1 .
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On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:46:01 +0100 Wernfried Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| > There are currently several ways of delivering important news items
| > to our users, none of them particularly effective:
|
| I'd suggest changing this to something more constructive - calling our
| current efforts "
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:32:05 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| Repositories will definitely have a unique identifier. Perhaps it
| would be better to use the repository-identifing format from the
| beginning so that readers are forced to be forwards-compatible?
| Assuming the readers
Luca Barbato wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>>
>> * Anything involving XML.
>>
>
> What about incidentally make the format yaml compatible?
>
> yaml.org
Only if we (you?) are able to extract a considerably simpler subset of
the specification, as is it's really overkill.
>
> /me runs
where ?
On 12/11/05, Wernfried Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 01:35:50AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > Although most package updates are clean and require little user action,
> > occasionally an upgrade requires user intervention during the upgrade
> > process.
> > Recent ex
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 01:35:50AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Although most package updates are clean and require little user action,
> occasionally an upgrade requires user intervention during the upgrade process.
> Recent examples of the latter include the ``gcc-3.4`` stabilisation on ``x86`
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
* Anything involving XML.
What about incidentally make the format yaml compatible?
yaml.org
/me runs
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On Sunday 11 December 2005 10:35, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Whenever relevant unread news items are found, the package manager will
> create a file named ``/var/lib/portage/news/news.unread`` (if it does not
> already exist) and append the news item identifier (eg
> ``2005-11-01-yoursql-updates``) o
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