Bug 440418

Summary:	media-video/mjpegtools-2.0.0-r2: some elog messages should only be shown for the first install.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	poletti.marco
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Daniel Pielmeier <billie>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	media-tv, media-video
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	440214

Description poletti.marco 2012-10-31 10:58:34 UTC

Disclaimer: this bug has been filed in a semi-automated manner.

When emerging the package media-video/mjpegtools-2.0.0-r2, the following elog messages are displayed:

 * Current versions of mjpegtools only support V4L1 which is not available
 * for kernel versions 2.6.38 and above. V4L1 will be disabled.

Such messages should only be displayed when the package is a new install.
These situations can be checked in the ebuild as follows:

if ! has_version 'media-video/mjpegtools'; then

See the tracker bug 440214 for more details.

Comment 1 Daniel Pielmeier gentoo-dev

2012-11-07 17:25:27 UTC

I think warnings and errors should be displayed all the time. If there is only an informational elog with information on how to configure or setup a package I agree that this message should be displayed only once.