Bug 173059

Summary:	hint for emerge info outdated (should be --info)
Product:	Gentoo Infrastructure	Reporter:	Timo Boettcher <spida>
Component:	Bugzilla	Assignee:	Bugzilla Admins <bugzilla>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	betelgeuse, caster, gb_about_gnu
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Timo Boettcher 2007-04-01 22:50:56 UTC

On entering a new but, the user is prompted:
"Please paste all information from 'emerge info' in this section!"
emerge info says:
*** Deprecated use of action 'info', use '--info' instead
so, the website should be adjusted to --info, too.

Comment 1 Vlastimil Babka (Caster) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-17 10:01:40 UTC

There should be also instructions to attach the info if it's too large, instead of splitting it into multiple comments... see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189202#c12

Comment 2 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-17 10:08:05 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> There should be also instructions to attach the info if it's too large, instead
> of splitting it into multiple comments... see
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189202#c12
> 

Well the original issue seems to be fixed so perhaps open a new bug.

Comment 3 Guenther Brunthaler 2007-08-17 10:17:10 UTC

This issue might actually be worsened if users make use of EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS.

When I was filing a bug report recently, I did an

# emerge --info

as instructed, but my EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS include the "--verbose" switch which made that output quite longer without me recognizing that fact.

So, it there is a way to undo the effect of a "--verbose" preset to "emerge" via the command line, it should be included in the prompt.

I have also created a discussion thread at

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-576528.html

about this question.

Comment 4 Robin Johnson archtester

2007-09-27 01:14:37 UTC

fixed. Please open a seperate bug for the --verbose defaultopts problem.