It's not at all clear that /var/log/emerge-fetch.log won't be updated/touched when emerge --fetchonly is used. Could the doc please say that ? Meanwhile it is always updated when --fetchonly isn't used (even when no fetches were done) eg. # cat /var/log/emerge-fetch.log * wget-1.21.tar.gz size ;-) ... [ ok ] * smartmontools-7.2.tar.gz size ;-) ... [ ok ] man emerge shows: --fetchonly, -f Instead of doing any package building, just perform fetches for all packages (fetch things from SRC_URI based upon USE setting). --fetch-all-uri, -F Instead of doing any package building, just perform fetches for all packages (fetch everything in SRC_URI regardless of USE set‐ ting). /var/log/emerge-fetch.log Contains a log of all the fetches in the previous emerge invocation. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run 'emerge --jobs=4 --load-average=4 --keep-going=n --usepkg=y --ask --ask-enter-invalid --binpkg-respect-use=y --binpkg-changed-deps=y --tree --deep --nospinner --backtrack=300 --with-bdeps=y --verbose --tree --deep --with-bdeps=y --changed-use --newuse --ask --complete-graph=y --changed-deps=y --update --usepkg=y --binpkg-respect-use=y --binpkg-changed-deps=y --nospinner --backtrack=300 @world --fetchonly' Actual Results: /var/log/emerge-fetch.log is not even timestamp updated Expected Results: the doc (man emerge) should say that /var/log/emerge-fetch.log isn't updated at all when --fetchonly is used. OR have /var/log/emerge-fetch.log be updated even when --fetchonly is used? /var/log/emerge-fetch.log isn't updated because --fetchonly causes fetching to not happen in the background but instead it's all shown on console. Didn't test --fetch-all-uri , only --fetchonly
