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Bug 440452

Summary: media-gfx/grub-splashes-20091109: some elog messages should only be shown for the first install.
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: poletti.marco
Component: Current packagesAssignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE    
Severity: normal CC: treecleaner
Priority: Normal Keywords: PMASKED
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 912684    
Bug Blocks: 440214    

Description poletti.marco 2012-10-31 10:58:53 UTC
Disclaimer: this bug has been filed in a semi-automated manner.

When emerging the package media-gfx/grub-splashes-20091109, the following elog messages are displayed:

 * Please note that this ebuild makes the assumption that you're
 * using /boot/grub/ for your grub configuration.
 * 
 * To use your new grub splashes edit your /boot/grub/grub.conf
 * You can see available splash screens by running
 * gentoo-blue.xpm.gz
gentoo.xpm.gz
green_splash.xpm.gz
gun_splash.xpm.gz
leaf_splash.xpm.gz
note_splash.xpm.gz
play_gentoo.xpm.gz
splash.xpm.gz
sword_splash.xpm.gz
sword_splash2.xpm.gz
urban_splash.xpm.gz

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-gfx/grub-splashes'; then

See the tracker bug 440214 for more details.