Bug 440438

Summary:	net-misc/ntp-4.2.6_p5-r1: some elog messages should only be shown for the first install.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	poletti.marco
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	pacho
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 10:58:44 UTC

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

When emerging the package net-misc/ntp-4.2.6_p5-r1, the following elog messages are displayed:

 * You can find an example /etc/ntp.conf in /usr/share/ntp/
 * Review /etc/ntp.conf to setup server info.
 * Review /etc/conf.d/ntpd to setup init.d info.
 * The way ntp sets and maintains your system time has changed.
 * Now you can use /etc/init.d/ntp-client to set your time at
 * boot while you can use /etc/init.d/ntpd to maintain your time
 * while your machine runs

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 'net-misc/ntp'; then

See the tracker bug 440214 for more details.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-11-06 21:40:35 UTC

has_version does not work in pkg_postinst functions

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2013-11-19 19:59:05 UTC

*** Bug 491700 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2013-11-19 19:59:41 UTC

Bug 491700 was about using readme.gentoo.eclass for the same, I can do the work if you want

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-04-04 08:03:14 UTC

(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #3)

i rarely find readme.gentoo.eclass to be the right answer, including this case

these lines are largely redundant ... this is how Gentoo / ntp basically works:
 * You can find an example /etc/ntp.conf in /usr/share/ntp/
 * Review /etc/ntp.conf to setup server info.
 * Review /etc/conf.d/ntpd to setup init.d info.

these have outlived their usefulness (over 8 years old now);
 * The way ntp sets and maintains your system time has changed.
 * Now you can use /etc/init.d/ntp-client to set your time at
 * boot while you can use /etc/init.d/ntpd to maintain your time
 * while your machine runs

i've deleted all the log messages from the latest version.

Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-04-04 08:05:41 UTC

should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report!

Commit message: Drop old postinst messages
http://sources.gentoo.org/net-misc/ntp/ntp-4.2.8-r3.ebuild?rev=1.1