Bug 136978 – eix-sync doesn't work if EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS contains --ask

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Maxxer 2006-06-16 05:05:30 UTC]

eix-sync doesn't work if EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS contains --ask, because when eix runs emerge --sync the command waits for a keypress.

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-06-16 05:10:47 UTC]

So, stick --ignore-default-opts there? Kinda expected behaviour, to be honest.

[Comment 2 Emil Beinroth 2006-06-18 04:41:02 UTC]

eix-sync works just fine with EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="-a".
If you want to turn the EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS off for a cronjob or something, use 'EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="" YOUR_COMMAND_HERE'.

It's not a bug, but expected behaviour - I won't change eix-sync.

[Comment 3 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2006-06-18 05:40:26 UTC]

upstream says wontfix, notabug, sorry.

[Comment 4 Maxxer 2006-06-19 01:00:01 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> eix-sync works just fine with EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="-a".

> It's not a bug, but expected behaviour - I won't change eix-sync.

I have EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--verbose --ask --tree" in my make.conf.
When I run eix-sync nothing happens, until I press enter again.
emerge --sync is waiting for a keypress, but eix-sync suppress its output so you can't see it!

I think I misexplained myself, because I just did it 5 mins ago and this is the behaviour I get.

If the expected behaviour is that eix-sync wait for Yes or No but without asking for it, then it's ok :)