147906 – equery piping issue

Bug 147906 - equery piping issue

Summary: equery piping issue

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	Lowest trivial
Assignee:	Portage Tools Team

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Reported:	2006-09-17 02:48 UTC by Cyril Romain
Modified:	2010-03-07 04:05 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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equery patch to get used flags of installed package piped (equery.patch,489 bytes, patch) 2006-09-17 02:49 UTC, Cyril Romain	Details \| Diff
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Description Cyril Romain 2006-09-17 02:48:14 UTC

equery does not output the used flags of installed package when used in command pipe.
equery outputs the 'U' flags but not the 'I' ones.

Comment 1 Cyril Romain 2006-09-17 02:49:56 UTC

Created attachment 97216 [details, diff]
equery patch to get used flags of installed package piped

Comment 2 Douglas Anderson 2010-03-07 04:05:13 UTC

Piping output is designed to be used via a script... in this case we want a simple "according to Portage, is this flag currently enabled, or not". The non piping output is used for a more general overview.

What your patch proposes can be easily attained by using the -N, --no-pipe option to pass the default output into a pipe, you'll just probably need to disable color (-C), and have your script ignore lines that aren't use flag related. But it's almost the same, script-wise.