well, I have only slow connection at home and want to create a file list of outdated packages, but output of emerge -pf _something_ (--pretend and --fetchonly) cannot be redirected to a file with standard shell method - emerge -fp blabla > ./filelist I hate copy&paste from xterm, and it is more than annoying to copy & paste output with > 1000 lines ;-) Moreover, it should be great to add option like --onemirror to see only one possible location for a package for automated download. I'm using portage/2.0.49-r4 from GRP installation 20030911. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
`emerge world -pf >& list` although it would be nice if it printed to stdout instead of stderr
thanks, I didn't realized it. screen & output logging is also good, but stdout is stdout ;-)
even better, adding option like --new-files or something similar should be good for determining files to be downloaded - I mean something like: # emerge -pf --new-files kde > filelist and it will print only files which are needed, but doesn't exist in /usr/portage/distfiles I now it could be done in many other ways, but I prefer simplicity ;-)
Closing the bug as it has been some time. Anyway, I don't think Portage should include option which will check if the file exists, some script would be better.
