Bug 416917 – etc-update should have a -q/--quiet option

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Christian Ruppert (idl0r) 2012-05-21 14:26:41 UTC]

Created attachment 312521 [details, diff]
dispatch-conf.diff

# etc-update --preen
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We (Infra) would like to use it within cfengine so "automated" runs.

Alternatively we have a quite old and modified dispatch-conf:
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-src/portage/bin/dispatch-conf?revision=1.7.2.10&view=markup
Attached is the diff against the above mentioned revision.
It basically just needs a "non-interactive" option.

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2012-05-24 19:26:22 UTC]

Created attachment 312989 [details, diff]
add etc-update -q/--quiet option

This option basically sends stdout to /dev/null for all non-essential messages. Is that what you want? Why don't you just do `etc-update --preen >/dev/null`?

[Comment 2 Christian Ruppert (idl0r) 2012-05-24 19:59:51 UTC]

That patch looks good but I didn't test it yet.
Well.. tbh I wasn't thinking about redirecting though It may be a good idea to offer a --quiet/-q option anyway.

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2012-09-04 01:34:46 UTC]

The etc-update patch is in git now:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=24a91dd6fb9bd9acdc5a72d2e830128c0f06bf98

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2012-09-08 23:51:15 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.11.14 and 2.2.0_alpha125.

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2012-09-09 03:29:05 UTC]

might be better to add a vecho helper:
 vecho() { ${QUIET} && echo "$@" ; }