If a sysadmin try to automate the sync of his workstations, he may note that emerge sync is not so useful with simple bash scripts. Sync must have a "quiet" option, to permit the admin to see what's going on even when no errors occurred. Think about a situation where the admin wants to see the sync procedure without reading all the verbose output from the rsync command. I mean: --- snip > A dutch RSYNC mirror @ the Leiden University [ gentoo@rsync4.nl.gentoo.org ] Have fun with Gentoo! receiving file list ... 1 file to consider timestamp.chk 32 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 Number of files: 1 Number of files transferred: 1 Total file size: 32 bytes Total transferred file size: 32 bytes Literal data: 32 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 32 Total bytes written: 205 Total bytes read: 243 wrote 205 bytes read 243 bytes 99.56 bytes/sec total size is 32 speedup is 0.07 > A dutch RSYNC mirror @ the Leiden University [ gentoo@rsync4.nl.gentoo.org ] Have fun with Gentoo! receiving file list ... 100 files... 200 files... 300 files... 400 files... 500 files... 600 files... 700 files... 800 files... 900 files... ---snip and so on... I think that there might be a variable to set the rsync command in make.conf. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge sync 2>&1 > log 2. cat log 3.
emerge -q sync emerge sync emerge -v sync 2.0.50_pre22
Created attachment 24961 [details, diff] rsync-noprogress.patch (made against _pre208) Nick, could you also consider this one line change please? I think it's useful when you call emerge sync from a script and want to filter the normal output, for instance to list new ebuilds or things like that. In that case, the --progress output with all its escape codes is real garbage. Thanks.
Great job. Two other things: * -q should automatically include --nospinner; * what about emerge -qs package Searching... [ Results for search key : package ] [ Applications found : 2 ] * media-libs/package-lib : Installed: 1.2, Available: 1.3 * media-plugins/package-plugin : Not installed
Created attachment 25033 [details, diff] rsync-noprogress.patch Talking about --nospinner, it should also disable rsync "--progress".
Bug has been fixed and released in stable portages on or before 2.0.51-r2
