I often find it useful to look at the resume list, both for monitoring during a long Portage operation and for using as a starting point for hand-building emerge command lines to work around problems (if it worked on the first try it wouldn't be called "unstable", would it? :) ). "emerge -pv --resume" recalculates dependencies, which takes a long time and is not always what I want. Also, its output format, while nice for human consumption, sucks for automatic processing. genlop gives very nice information for monitoring, but not for building command lines. And, again, it's focused on output to a human. Hence, I wrote a small Python script that gropes around in the Portage internals and digs out the resume list, printing it in machine-readable-formats. I currently keep it in my personal Portage overlay on GitHub, at https://github.com/creideiki/portage/blob/master/app-portage/creideiki-gentoo-utils/files/eresumelist . Do you think such a utility would be useful for other people? If so, would you consider adding it to e.g. gentoolkit? Sample output: ~ $ eresumelist -h usage: eresumelist [-h] [-s] [-b] Print packages that will be installed by "emerge --resume". optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -s, --strip-version strip version numbers from package list -b, --backup show the backup resume list While an emerge operation is running, or the last operation was aborted: ~ $ eresumelist | head -n 5 =x11-libs/goffice-0.8.17-r1 =app-emulation/wine-1.6.2 =sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5.1-r1 =media-gfx/hugin-2014.0.0 =net-misc/openssh-6.9_p1-r2 ~ $ eresumelist -s | head -n 5 x11-libs/goffice app-emulation/wine sys-apps/shadow media-gfx/hugin net-misc/openssh When the last emerge operation completed successfully: ~ $ eresumelist No emerge operation to resume ~ $ eresumelist -b | head -n 5 =sys-libs/glibc-2.22-r1 =net-wireless/wireless-regdb-20151022 =sys-devel/autoconf-archive-2015.09.25 =sys-block/di-4.37 =sys-devel/binutils-config-5-r1 Reproducible: Always
