I use 'eix-sync -q' in a cron job. Even though I use the Option '-q' there is some non error output. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run: eix-sync -q 2. Look at the output Actual Results: q: Updating ebuild cache ... q: Finished 24930 entries in 9.648274 seconds real 243.92 user 21.07 sys 10.22 Expected Results: <no output, only if there is an error> Portage 2.1.4.4 (hardened/linux/x86, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r10 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3220 @ 2.40GHz Timestamp of tree: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:46:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r14 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib/fax /usr/lib/openoffice/share/psprint/psprint.conf /usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/debug/gdbsrc.el /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage_distfiles" FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" LANG="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage_packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/global/common/gentoo_overlay /usr/local/overlays/local" USE="X Xaw3d a52 acl alsa asf automount bash-completion berkdb branding buffysize cli cracklib crypt cups dar32 dar64 dbus dovecot-sasl dri erandom fam firefox font-server force-cgi-redirect gcj gif hardened iconv idea idn imap informix isdnlog java javamail jbig jpeg kerberos ldap linuxkeys logrotate lzo lzw maildir mbox midi mime mmx mmxext motif mozbranding moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mpeg4 mudflap ncurses nls nosendmail nptl nptlonly nsplugin oci8 oci8-instant-client opengl openmp oracle pam pcre pdo perl pic png ppds pppd python quotas readline reflection samba sasl sensord session simplexml spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs syslog tabs tcpd tetex tiff tools unicode urandom userlocales vda vhosts vim-syntax win32codecs wmf x86 xmlreader xmlwriter xorg xprint xsl zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" FRITZCAPI_CARDS="fcpci" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa vga fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
What you see is output of standard error not of standard output, so eix-sync -q is working correctly (i.e. as documented). The POSIX "time -p" command always outputs the time on stderr. This is indeed questionable, and I will change this in next eix or make it optional. However, the other output of standard error is that of q-reinitialize of app-portage/portage-utils. It may be considered as a bug or feature request for that package: Informal messages should go to stdout and not to stderr. I change the summary correspondingly (the bug was assigned to tools-portage already, anyway).
*** Bug 238467 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 238640 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is not likely to change in portage-utils as it does exactly what it does for reasons we chose. Redirect stderr if you want NO output.
*** Bug 245491 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 245739 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
