Bug 394691

Summary:	Add timestamps to emerge's output (esp. with --quiet-build=y)
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	jannis <kripton>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	esigra, jaak
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	184128

Description jannis 2011-12-14 14:23:58 UTC

I would like to have timestamps on emerge's ouput to get a quick glance how long emerging a package takes. Without quiet-build=y one would hardly see them between all the build output but with quiet-build=y it should be quite useful.
Of course I know that I can find this information in form of unix timestamps in emerge.log and someone on IRC mentioned I could set PORT_LOGDIR and check, when the files have been created/modified but I would like to have this directly in my terminal.
The perfect solution (as I see it) would be a variable to be defined in make.conf that specifies the format of the timestamps as used with C's strftime() (or a python equivalent).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2011-12-14 17:14:25 UTC

For the make.conf format setting, we could use something like EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--build-time-fmt=%H:%M:%S" in order to avoid introducing more variables.

Also, see bug 394335 which is about display of build ETA.

Comment 2 jannis 2011-12-14 17:39:10 UTC

Your solution to use --build-time-fmt=%H:%M:%S in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS is perfectly fine with me and thanks for the reference to the other bug. I would totally agree to make this one a dup or blocker of the mentioned #394335