On Tuesday 01 November 2005 14:39, Jakub Moc wrote: > 1.11.2005, 13:26:57, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:16:03 +0100 Thierry Carrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > | For them to know about it, they need to be warned when they do their > > | "emerge -p world" or "emerge -a mysql" that the upgrade is not as easy > > | as it seems. People using a cron job to sync are probably a > > | significant part of our user base... > > > > Have Portage give a red flashy before emerge if there're unread news > > items? > > > > Although, a better solution for users who cron sync would be to have > > said cron mail them all the relevant news files... > > Uhm... emerge sync is a *bad* time to display upgrade messages, it's simply > irrelevant at that time, I'm not upgrading anything at the moment and might > not be upgrading for next week or so. > > The messages should be displayed when I'm about to upgrade an ebuild which > has an upgrade note associated with the new version. Sending mail via cron > might be a nice optional feature for those who want to use it.
I think cron as suggested hit the spot here. I do the same with glsa-check -t all to notify me about security issues present on my system. -- Eldad Zack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key/Fingerprint at pgp.mit.edu, ID 0x96EA0A93
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