Bug 40935

Summary:	etcat versions output no longer concise
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Andrew Cowie <andrew>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andrew Cowie 2004-02-08 20:53:52 UTC

running `etcat versions sys-libs/db` used to produce a nice, concise output, in the form:

sys-libs/db
  [  I] 4.0.14-r2 (4)
  [M~ ] 4.2.52_p1 (4.2)


And so on.

Now, each *individual* version [ebuild] get's it's own status line. 

sys-libs/db-4.0.14-r2 :
  [  I] 4.0.14-r2 (4)

sys-libs/db-4.2.52_p1 :
  [M~ ] 4.2.52_p1 (4.2)

etc Which is kinda silly. I realize that this is just a request, but the conciseness of etcat versions was one of the best things about Gentoo. In fact, I am in the process of writing an article for a Linux magazine praising that very feature!

Is this something that can be controlled with a configuration parameter? Either way, I recommend reverting that behaviour.

AfC




Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-13 02:52:44 UTC

fixed in 0.2.0_pre7