Daniel Troeder writes:

> On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 11:16 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Sunday 05 April 2009 21:45:16 Daniel Troeder wrote:
> > > When updates hit the portage tree, that are known to cause problems
> > > to lots of people - why not tell that directly after the "--sync"?
> >
> > Unfortunate timing here - within 24 hours the X11 upgrade included
> > exactly this feature by way of eselect news!
>
> Oh yes - that's great :)

Indeed!

> I think it was triggered when I ran "emerge -pvuND world" after
> "--sync".
>
> Unfortunately I had other things on my mind at that time, so I can't
> remember well.
> * Is there a way to reproduce the event?
> * Where can I find old "news"? With "eselect news read all" I get
> nothing. Did I maybe "purge" it?... that brings me back to my first
> question :)

"eselect news list" shows all news, including a section with already read 
news. "eselect news read 2009-04-06-x_server-1_5" then displays it.

        Wonko

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