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Bug 737018 - dedicated text field for emerge --info
Summary: dedicated text field for emerge --info
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Infrastructure
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Bugzilla (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
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Reported: 2020-08-13 22:02 UTC by Jonas Stein
Modified: 2020-08-14 06:45 UTC (History)
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Description Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2020-08-13 22:02:54 UTC
emrge --info got longer over the time. 
Many users cannot paste it anymore:
"Comments cannot be longer than 16384 characters. If you need to post contents of files or logs, use the attachment feature instead."

We should select one of the following options:
1) shorten emerge --info
2) allow longer texts
3) add a dedicated text field with a different limit
4) ask to *attach* the emerge --info instead of pasting it

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-08-14 05:42:50 UTC
We could also include it automatically in build logs.
Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2020-08-14 06:38:08 UTC
(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #1)
> We could also include it automatically in build logs.

The most important information of build.log is at their beginning and their end, so I don't think it would be a good idea to obstruct them by prepending or appending emerge --info output.
Comment 3 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-08-14 06:45:55 UTC
Yet ago is doing that anyway, so that battle's lost by now.

I suppose the info at the beginning is roughly a subset of 'emerge --info', so I suppose we could place it after the initial bits and before first phase function output.  However, it should probably be printed only to build log and not to console.