Bug 481584 – Repoman: Output is needlessly hard to parse

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Patrick Lauer 2013-08-19 03:05:57 UTC]

Sample output:

  LIVEVCS.unmasked              2
   www-apps/horizon/horizon-2013.1.9999.ebuild
   www-apps/trac-mercurial/trac-mercurial-1.0.0.3_pre20130206.ebuild
  inherit.deprecated            46

This is needlessly hard to parse in a sane way, I suggest a columnar format that is grep'able, like this:

NumberOf LIVEVCS.unmasked              2
LIVEVCS.unmasked www-apps/horizon/horizon-2013.1.9999.ebuild
LIVEVCS.unmasked www-apps/trac-mercurial/trac-mercurial-1.0.0.3_pre20130206.ebuild
NumberOf inherit.deprecated            46
inherit.deprecated www-apps/bitten/bitten-0.6-r1.ebuild: please migrate from 'distutils' to 'distutils-r1' on line: 15

Advantage:
repoman full | grep '^LIVECVS'  # this gives all matches, no need for heavy sed/awk/wtf magic

(Could be hidden behind a --machine-readable or similar command line toggle)

[Comment 1 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) 2014-02-10 20:42:27 UTC]

Created attachment 370090 [details, diff]
repoman-parseable.patch

Working on this. Attached is a first shot at a patch; asked for feedback in #-portage, will post to the mailing list soon if there are no objections

[Comment 2 Alec Warner (RETIRED) 2014-02-10 20:46:29 UTC]

machine parseable should be a choices (not a boolean).

for instance:

--machine_parseable=column
--machine_parseable=csv
--machine_parseable=json

and so forth.

[Comment 3 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) 2014-02-11 02:43:14 UTC]

Created attachment 370114 [details, diff]
repoman-parseable-v2.patch

Updated for that and for other criticisms on the ML.

[Comment 4 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) 2014-02-12 00:58:08 UTC]

Committed (with a few changes) as af0eca982f04409439e6310e602b55bed6cc623c

[Comment 5 Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) 2014-08-04 02:05:53 UTC]

released in portage-2.2.11