Bug 216424

Summary:	eix : eix-sync hangs with --ask as default portage option
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Gokdeniz Karadag <gokdenizk>
Component:	Third-Party Tools	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	emilbeinroth, martin
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Gokdeniz Karadag 2008-04-05 22:10:39 UTC

When EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask" is set, eix-sync  cals emerge --sync, then emerge waits for the "Yes" answer. Giving 'y' as input here works as expected. Eix does not display the output of emerge, so the user has no way to tell if sync took too long or it is waiting for input. 

As a fix, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS can be resetted before calling emerge , or filtered for an "ask" or "pretend"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set  EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask"
2. run eix-sync

Actual Results:  
Eix displays Running emerge --sync ... in reality, emerge is waiting for input.


Expected Results:  
emerge --sync step should complete successfully

Comment 1 Martin Väth 2008-04-06 11:31:33 UTC

Won't fix.
If the user explicitly wants to get asked from emerge always, eix-sync
should not change this. The user can see the output if he puts -v
into /etc/eix-sync.conf. eix-sync is not responsible if the user chooses
options which are inconvenient if used isolated.

Comment 2 Martin Väth 2008-04-06 13:01:56 UTC

Forgot to mention: You can of course put the line -C --ignore-default-opts
to /etc/eix-sync.conf to suppress the default options only for eix-sync.

Comment 3 Paul Varner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-04-23 20:09:44 UTC

Marking as WONTFIX, per the maintiner.