Bug 45609

Summary:	emerge info should contain date of the portage snapshot
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Florian Effenberger <floeff>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	mholzer, tmbeck
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Florian Effenberger 2004-03-24 08:49:22 UTC

emerge info should contain date of the portage snapshot

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-24 17:57:30 UTC

I don't see why the date of the snapshot should be there (that info is nowhere stored on the disk after installation), after the first

Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-24 17:57:30 UTC

I don't see why the date of the snapshot should be there (that info is nowhere stored on the disk after installation), after the first èmerge sync` it is completely irrelevant.

Comment 3 Florian Effenberger 2004-03-25 12:23:04 UTC

Sometimes bugs are related to a specific snapshot version/date.

Comment 4 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-05-04 10:06:50 UTC

Can you give me an example for such a bug? If at all we should provide the timestamp from the tree which has nothing to do with the snapshot you used, but I still don't think this would be useful.

Comment 5 Florian Effenberger 2004-05-04 10:35:20 UTC

For example bugs in the snapshot (missing files, wrong ebuilds, ...)

Comment 6 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-05-16 03:44:02 UTC

Not useful. There are too many things making their way in there.

Comment 7 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-14 00:28:15 UTC

*** Bug 53863 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***