Bug 440468

Summary:	sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.24_p2: some elog messages should only be shown for the first install.
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	poletti.marco
Component:	genkernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Genkernel Maintainers <genkernel>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
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 10:59:01 UTC

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

When emerging the package sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.24_p2, the following elog messages are displayed:

 * Copying files to /var/cache/genkernel/src...
 * Documentation is available in the genkernel manual page
 * as well as the following URL:
 * http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/genkernel.xml
 * This package is known to not work with reiser4.  If you are running
 * reiser4 and have a problem, do not file a bug.  We know it does not
 * work and we don't plan on fixing it since reiser4 is the one that is
 * broken in this regard.  Try using a sane filesystem like ext3 or
 * even reiser3.

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 'sys-kernel/genkernel'; then

See the tracker bug 440214 for more details.

Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester

2012-11-02 16:54:14 UTC

No, these messages should be displayed every time for genkernel. To remind users.

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2012-11-11 13:48:49 UTC

Could you edit the message to suggest ext4 over ext3? ;)