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Bug 553788

Summary: sys-apps/portage: emaint sync creates no log entries in /var/log/emerge.log
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Till Schäfer <till2.schaefer>
Component: Core - Interface (emerge)Assignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: denis.kurz, sam
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Till Schäfer 2015-07-02 12:49:17 UTC 
Since I use emaint sync for synchronization the process is no longer logged to /var/log/emerge.log and therefore some tools (such as genlop -r) do not work properly anymore. However, if i use emerge --sync the log output is generated. 

Reproducible: Always




# emerge --info
Portage 2.2.18 (python 2.7.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd, gcc-4.8.4, glibc-2.20-r2, 4.0.5-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-4.0.5-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-4810MQ_CPU_@_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:    16402356 total,    128004 free
KiB Swap:   16777212 total,  16777136 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 12:30:01 +0000
sh bash 4.3_p33-r2
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24
app-shells/bash:          4.3_p33-r2::gentoo
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.20.2::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.9-r1::gentoo, 3.3.5-r1::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.2.2::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28-r2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.17::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13::gentoo, 2.69::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.12.6::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.24-r3::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            4.8.4::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.1-r1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.18::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.20-r2::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000

local_overlay
    location: /usr/local/portage
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 5

kde
    location: /var/lib/layman/kde
    sync-type: laymansync
    sync-uri: git://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/kde.git
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

Installed sets: @kde-devel-frameworks
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -ggdb"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0 /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -ggdb"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y --autounmask-write --jobs=5 --load-average=10.0"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs compressdebug config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch parallel-install preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi aes alsa amd64 avx avx2 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdaudio cdda cddb cdio cdr cli cracklib crypt cryptsetup cups cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fma3 fortran gdbm gif glamor gpg gpm gtk iconv icu id3tag imagemagic inotify ipv4 ipv6 jepg2k jpeg kde kipi lame lcms ldap libnotify libsamplerate lzma mad mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib ncurses networkmanager nls nptl ntp ogg opengl openmp openvpn otr pam pango pcre pdf phonon plasma pm-utils png policykit popcnt ppds pulseaudio qemu qt3support qt4 quicktime rar readline real rss sdl semantic-desktop session spell spice sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg systemd taglib tcpd threads tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb v4l v4l2 vcd vim-syntax vorbis wavpack wifi wma wmf wxwidgets x264 xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 fma3 mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Comment 1 Till Schäfer 2015-07-02 13:03:29 UTC 
possible related to Bug 553792
Comment 2 Till Schäfer 2015-09-25 15:11:23 UTC 
still valid in current stable
Comment 3 Denis Kurz 2015-12-08 12:05:20 UTC 
And still present in 2.2.24. My last rsync was reportedly on "Thu Jan 8" according to genlop -r.

I start to wonder if this is intended behaviour, but I don't know how to get the time of my last sync otherwise. I am not expected to write my own postsync hook, am I?
Comment 4 Till Schäfer 2018-08-15 13:02:55 UTC 
still valid for 2.3.44. Any progress here?
Comment 5 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2018-08-15 14:41:47 UTC 
The issues is that the SyncRepos constructor defaults to emerge_logging=False. If we set it to True then it will work, but we should also add support for EMERGE_LOG_DIR configuration (current support is limited to emerge's run_action function).
Comment 6 squatted_posture785 2023-08-15 16:09:30 UTC 
Any update on this?

The Gentoo Wiki mentions that "# emaint sync --auto/-a" is now the command that should be used to sync ebuild repositories (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Ebuild_repository#Repository_synchronization):

> To sync all repositories for which auto-sync=true is set, run emaint sync with the --auto switch (-a for short). This is usually the command that should be run regularly, before system updates and package installation (and is equivalent to using the old emerge --sync command)

> The emerge --sync command is now only a compatibility command. Primary control of all sync operations has been moved from emerge to emaint, and emerge --sync now just calls the emaint sync module with the --auto option.

Hopefully this will be fixed, "# emaint sync" should write to "/var/log/emerge.log" just like "# emerge --sync" or "# eix-sync".