Bug 154045

Summary:	app-portage/gentoolkit - glsa-check needs a quiet option
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Rick Altherr <kc8apf>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Rick Altherr 2006-11-04 09:21:57 UTC

I like to put two things in my crontab: emerge -q --sync followed by glsa-check -ln affected.  The problem is that glsa-check always outputs a legend even if there are no GLSAs listed.  A -q option should suppress that output and result in no output unless a GLSA is listed.

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-05 03:01:31 UTC

Just drop stderr to /dev/null then.

Comment 2 Rick Altherr 2006-11-05 11:45:39 UTC

Considering the other major tools offer quiet modes, I would expect glsa-check to offer one as well.

Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-05 16:57:16 UTC

Doesn't change anything. I'm not going to waste time adding a IMHO useless option.

Comment 4 Ylosar Goer 2007-05-10 12:42:20 UTC

stderr is supposed to be used for errors, not for useless informations which belongs to a man page, IMHO.