Bug 100318

Summary:	Portage cvs pkg_warn support
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Alec Warner (RETIRED) <antarus>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	VERIFIED LATER
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester

2005-07-25 22:23:25 UTC

See relevant threads on gentoo-dev[1] and gentoo-portage-dev[2]

Add a pkg_warn() function that emerge can then call to display warning 
information during an emerge -pv <package>

The warning would be used to print out upgrade path information along with known 
problems with the package.  This is useful prior to installation so that an 
administrator can have knowledge of difficulties prior to installation and 
prepare for them.

This is planned for CVS ( per Jason ).  Not sure if patching against current cvs 
would be at all useful, or to wait until more of the new code is done ( ie is 
doebuild being gutted?  I thought so... ).

[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&w=2&r=1&s=advisories&q=b
[2] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/cutoff=787

Comment 1 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-26 03:25:40 UTC

Still talking. Brian has already brought up issues with it. 
(It won't be forgotten about without a bug either)

Comment 2 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester

2005-07-26 18:47:17 UTC

Talked about on gentoo-portage, encouraging decent changelog use and using 
current -l feature to give output.