Bug 243220

Summary:	portage: emerge.log should show old package that is removed during upgrade
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Derek Dolney <z23>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	ps
Priority:	High	Keywords:	InVCS, REGRESSION
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	210077, 268228

Description Derek Dolney 2008-10-22 14:32:20 UTC

At the end of an package update emerge, the version string reported on the "Cleaning" and the "Post-Build Cleaning" lines in emerge.log are the new package version. I think it makes more sense if at least one of these lines reported the old package version.

If I do an emerge -e world, and there are a handful of updates mixed in with everything, can I later look in emerge.log (or anywhere) to find out which packaged were updated and what was the version that was cleaned?

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2008-10-22 16:43:08 UTC

Changing the meaning of the 'Post-Build Cleaning' section is probably not a good idea since any changes to the format break tools that are designed to parse it. However, we can add a new section that contains the desired information.

Comment 2 Anders Hellgren gentoo-dev

2009-03-28 09:39:59 UTC

I guess this is really a regression from portage-2.1.4 or so. Previously, portage logged unmerges during autoclean in addition to Post-Build Cleaning etc.

$ genlop -u portage
 * sys-apps/portage
[snip]
     Sat Nov 10 10:24:09 2007 <<< sys-apps/portage-2.1.3.16
     Sat Nov 10 10:24:09 2007 >>> sys-apps/portage-2.1.3.19
     Thu Feb 14 18:23:17 2008 <<< sys-apps/portage-2.1.3.19
     Thu Feb 14 18:23:17 2008 >>> sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4
     Thu Oct  9 20:08:45 2008 >>> sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.5
     Fri Dec 19 21:32:38 2008 >>> sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.1

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2009-03-28 19:37:19 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> I guess this is really a regression from portage-2.1.4 or so. Previously,
> portage logged unmerges during autoclean in addition to Post-Build Cleaning
> etc.

That's true. In svn r13241 I've restored the old messages.

Comment 4 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2009-04-11 04:26:15 UTC

This is fixed in 2.2_rc29.

Comment 5 Derek Dolney 2009-04-11 20:59:39 UTC

Yep, it is fixed. Thanks!

Comment 6 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2009-05-02 02:38:19 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.6.12.

Comment 7 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2009-05-03 22:59:40 UTC

*** Bug 268459 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***