On 11/10/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:12:28 +0000 Stuart Herbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | Should the GLEP explain how Portage will know how many unread news > | items there are in /var/lib/gentoo/news? I couldn't spot where this > | is covered in the text, or in the example code. > > Well, I was going to go with the plain but simple "once you've read it, > delete it" approach, but some people didn't like that. Next draft will > propose being able to append .read to a filename to mark it read > without deleting it. Either way, it's just a case of looking > for ????-??-??-*.??.txt, chopping off the .??.txt, removing duplicates > and counting. >
What about something like "/etc/portage/news.read", which contains a single news file per line. Perhaps have support for something like "<=2006-01-01" in order to be able to manually mark date ranges as read. HTH, Mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
