Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncore...@gmail.com> writes:
> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 03:10:51 -0500, Dale wrote: >> Andrew Ammerlaan wrote: >> > >> > And then another thing, how is it possible that so many people missed >> > the news item? They are displayed quite prominently I think, and >> > emerge will keep buggering you about it until it is marked as read. >> > Just wondering if there is something that can be improved here. >> > >> > Best regards, >> > Andrew >> >> >> I'm pretty good at reading the news items. I seem to recall that you >> see one only if it affects you, you have a package installed or >> something. So, if it shows up, it is best to take notice. That said, I >> don't recall seeing the news item either. I can't imagine me missing it >> but I also can't imagine me not taking action either. After all, (eu)dev >> is a important package. >> >> One thing is for sure, the name is rather obvious. The first word in >> the title is eudev. I have yet to figure out how I missed it. Given >> the number of people who did, could there have been a glitch and it >> didn't show for some weird reason? Has someone who understands the code >> checked to see if there was some typo that made it not show for most >> users? >> >> I do think this is worth looking into. It just seems odd. >> > > It's not impossible for a news item to have bugs. > > Somewhat recently, when the hardened toolchain changes were being made, > a news item was sent out recommending an `-e @world`. I knew it was > coming because I saw the drafts of the news item here (as well as > discussion on irc), so I was surprised when I didn't see it on my > laptop on the day of. But I did see it on my work machine. > > We managed to track it down to my work machine using the hardened > profile whereas my laptop is using the hardened/selinux profile, and > Portage didn't quite catch that as being relevant for both. FTR: since then, the Portage logic got fixed but I also used it as impetus to implement a bunch of tests for the news item logic which would've caught this and a few other problems. But definitely possible this happened here. > > - Oskari > > [[End of PGP Signed Part]]
