Bug 427920 – app-portage/gentoolkit: epkinfo should have an option to show plain output for piping to a file

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: CONFIRMED ---

[Description Pacho Ramos 2012-07-24 17:52:41 UTC]

I was trying to get:
epkginfo -Hm $(cat LISTA.txt|cut -d " " -f1)

output into a file but I couldn't because of it's formatting, would be nice to be able to get that output in a plain format for piping it to a file

Thanks a lot

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Mike Gilbert 2012-07-24 18:00:00 UTC]

When output is a pipe, equery meta (epkginfo) operates in quiet mode. Does that not work for you?

floppym@naomi ~ % epkginfo -Hm www-client/chromium sys-boot/grub | cat
chromium
base-system
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[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2012-07-24 18:20:18 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> When output is a pipe, equery meta (epkginfo) operates in quiet mode. Does
> that not work for you?
> 
> floppym@naomi ~ % epkginfo -Hm www-client/chromium sys-boot/grub | cat
> chromium
> base-system
> [e-mail]

That output can be really ugly for some packages, try:

epkginfo -Hm app-accessibility/java-access-bridge app-admin/system-config-printer-common|cat
gnome-accessibility
java
kde
gnome
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[Comment 3 Mike Gilbert 2012-07-24 18:29:56 UTC]

If you want to see the package name associated with each herd/maintainer, you could use a loop:

for pkg in $(cat LISTA.txt|cut -d " " -f1); do
  printf "$pkg: %s\n" $(epkginfo -Hm $pkg)
done

Some additional output formatting options would be nice though.

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2012-07-24 18:49:05 UTC]

Nice, thanks a lot for the hint!

[Comment 5 Paul Varner (RETIRED) 2012-07-24 18:56:16 UTC]

Currently, the only other option for formatting is to call equery meta with the --no-pipe option and/or use grep

equery --no-pipe meta -Hm app-accessibility/java-access-bridge app-admin/system-config-printer-common | cat
 * app-accessibility/java-access-bridge [gentoo]                                                                                           
gnome-accessibility ([e-mail])                                                                                       
java ([e-mail])                                                                                                                     
None specified                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                           
 * app-admin/system-config-printer-common [gentoo]                                                                                         
kde ([e-mail])                                                                                                                       
gnome ([e-mail])                                                                                                                   
[e-mail] (Maciej Mrozowski)

                                                                                                    
equery --no-pipe meta app-accessibility/java-access-bridge app-admin/system-config-printer-common | egrep '(\*|Herd:|Maintainer:)'
 * app-accessibility/java-access-bridge [gentoo]
Herd:        gnome-accessibility ([e-mail])
Herd:        java ([e-mail])
Maintainer:  None specified
 * app-admin/system-config-printer-common [gentoo]
Herd:        kde ([e-mail])
Herd:        gnome ([e-mail])
Maintainer:  [e-mail] (Maciej Mrozowski)