292910 – sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc49 emerge --search gives strange output when output is not a tty

Bug 292910 - sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc49 emerge --search gives strange output when output is not a tty

Summary: sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc49 emerge --search gives strange output when output is...

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Keywords:	InVCS

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Blocks:	288499
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Reported:	2009-11-12 12:15 UTC by Albert W. Hopkins
Modified:	2009-11-16 01:52 UTC (History)
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Description Albert W. Hopkins 2009-11-12 12:15:09 UTC

I have found strange behavior when using "emerge --search".  Basically when the output device is a tty then it looks like this:

$ emerge -s pidgin
Searching...    
[ Results for search key : pidgin ]
[ Applications found : 14 ]
 
*  app-accessibility/pidgin-festival
      Latest version available: 2.2-r1
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 344 kB
      Homepage:      http://pidgin.festival.sourceforge.net
      Description:   A plugin for pidgin which enables text-to-speech output of conversations using festival.
      License:       GPL-2

*  net-im/pidgin
      Latest version available: 2.6.3
      Latest version installed: 2.6.3
      Size of files: 8,880 kB
      Homepage:      http://pidgin.im/
      Description:   GTK Instant Messenger client
      License:       GPL-2

[...]

However, when the output device is not tty then certain fields are printed.  It's hard to explain without an example:

$ emerge -s pidgin |cat
Searching...          Homepage:      http://pidgin.festival.sourceforge.net
      Description:   A plugin for pidgin which enables text-to-speech output of conversations using festival.
      License:       GPL-2

      Homepage:      http://pidgin.im/
      Description:   GTK Instant Messenger client
      License:       GPL-2

      Homepage:      http://pidgin-encrypt.sourceforge.net/
      Description:   Pidgin IM Encryption PlugIn
      License:       GPL-2

[...]

      Homepage:      http://pidgin.im/
      Description:   Pidgin smiley themes
      License:       as-is
                                                                                
[ Results for search key : pidgin ]
[ Applications found : 14 ]
 
*  app-accessibility/pidgin-festival
      Latest version available: 2.2-r1
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 344 kB
*  net-im/pidgin
      Latest version available: 2.6.3
      Latest version installed: 2.6.3
      Size of files: 8,880 kB
*  x11-plugins/pidgin-encryption
      Latest version available: 3.0
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 572 kB

When the output is not a tty it is not easily human- (or machine-) readable because one must scroll to two different areas in the out put to find out about each package.

This is portage 2.2_rc49.  Others versions may be affected as well (haven't tested).

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2009-11-12 23:38:00 UTC

This is fixed in svn r14818.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2009-11-16 01:19:21 UTC

This is fixed in portage-2.1.7.5 and 2.2_rc50.

Comment 3 Albert W. Hopkins 2009-11-16 01:52:11 UTC

Thank you :-)