Bug 47867

Summary:	portage package does not have a ChangeLog in Portage!
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Andrew Cowie <andrew>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andrew Cowie 2004-04-14 18:18:21 UTC

Running `emerge portage -lp` results in no changelog being output. How can users be expected to upgrade the most crucial piece of software on the system without having any idea what has changed?

In other words, 

http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/portage/ChangeLog?rev=HEAD&cvsroot=gentoo-src&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

(or a summary thereof) should be in 

/usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/ChangeLog

!!!

AfC
Sydney

Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-14 22:15:16 UTC

If I used that changelog, no one would read it anyway.
Seriously. Do you care if I moved a conditional to prevent
a traceback that you were unaware of and/or unaffected by?

There is way too much internal changing to list the
application changelog in that ChangeLog. If you want to
know, you can put up the effort.

Also, if it's that critical, then you should probably check
the internals changelog, as well as read the documentation
for change details too.

A "What's New" File might start appearing in the next series.

Comment 2 Andrew Cowie 2004-09-14 22:21:54 UTC

Well, to use your example, if all you changed was a conditional, then just say so. "Minor bug fixes". On the other hand, if it was a major change, then please indicate that... It's actually the broad brush differences that users/admins need to know about IMHO.

As I said, emerge -lp is a really powerful feature, and I encourage you leverage it.

Later,

AfC