Bug 592314 – emerge --fetchonly --pretend should not write to /var/log/portage

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: UNCONFIRMED ---

[Description ta2002 2016-08-28 13:17:05 UTC]

I don't think that any emerge command with "-p" should write to /var/log/portage/. The -p flag is explicitly supposed to do nothing.

Two examples here (but before I begin, there is an additional problem with the ati-drivers ebuld - the files download without any problem from the gentoo mirrors, even though there is a message saying that one of them needs to be downloaded manually).


[no problem]
$ emerge -p oracle-jre-bin 

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   Rf   ] dev-java/oracle-jre-bin-1.8.0.102:1.8::gentoo  USE="alsa cups fontconfig -headless-awt -javafx -jce -nsplugin -pax_kernel (-selinux)" 0 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
Fetch Restriction: 1 package


[writes to /var/log/portage/]
$ emerge -fp oracle-jre-bin                                         

These are the packages that would be fetched, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

!!! dev-java/oracle-jre-bin-1.8.0.102 has fetch restriction turned on.
!!! This probably means that this ebuild's files must be downloaded
!!! manually.  See the comments in the ebuild for more information.

 * Please download 'jre-8u102-linux-x64.tar.gz' from:
 * 'http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre8-downloads-2133155.html'
 * and move it to '/usr/portage/distfiles'
 * 
 * If the above mentioned urls do not point to the correct version anymore,
 * please download the files from Oracle's java download archive:
 * 
 *    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-archive-javase8-2177648.html#jre-8u102-oth-JPR
 * 


[no problem]
$ emerge -p ati-drivers 

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N     ] x11-proto/xf86miscproto-0.9.3::gentoo  83 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] x11-drivers/ati-drivers-15.9-r1:1::gentoo  USE="-debug -gdm-hack -modules -pax_kernel -qt4 -static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32" 177,319 KiB

Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 177,402 KiB


[writes to /var/log/portage/]
$ emerge -fp ati-drivers

These are the packages that would be fetched, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/xf86miscproto-0.9.3.tar.bz2 http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/proto/xf86miscproto-0.9.3.tar.bz2 

http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/amd-catalyst-15.9-linux-installer-15.201.1151-x86.x86_64.zip http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo/distfiles/amd-catalyst-15.9-linux-installer-15.201.1151-x86.x86_64.zip http://gentoo-distfiles.mirrors.tds.net/distfiles/amd-catalyst-15.9-linux-installer-15.201.1151-x86.x86_64.zip http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/amd-catalyst-15.9-linux-installer-15.201.1151-x86.x86_64.zip http://gentoo.ussg.indiana.edu/distfiles/amd-catalyst-15.9-linux-installer-15.201.1151-x86.x86_64.zip 

http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/xvba-sdk-0.74-404001.tar.gz http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/xvba-sdk-0.74-404001.tar.gz 
 * The driver packages
 * amd-catalyst-15.9-linux-installer-15.201.1151-x86.x86_64.zip xvba-sdk-0.74-404001.tar.gz
 * need to be downloaded manually from
 * http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86
 * and http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/xvba-sdk-0.74-404001.tar.gz

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2016-08-31 05:16:17 UTC]

It's probably the elog subsystem that's doing the writing. What file(s) do you see it create in /var/log/portage?

[Comment 2 ta2002 2016-09-28 11:53:30 UTC]

(In reply to Zac Medico from comment #1)
> It's probably the elog subsystem that's doing the writing. What file(s) do
> you see it create in /var/log/portage?

The latter examples writes x11-drivers:ati-drivers-15.12-r1:20160928-115135.log

The contents:

 * Package:    x11-drivers/ati-drivers-15.12-r1
 * Repository: gentoo
 * Maintainer: [e-mail] [e-mail],[e-mail]
 * USE:        abi_x86_64 amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU
 * FEATURES:   sandbox userpriv usersandbox
 * The driver packages
 * radeon-crimson-15.12-15.302-151217a-297685e.zip xvba-sdk-0.74-404001.tar.gz
 * need to be downloaded manually from
 * http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86
 * or http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86_64
 * and http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/xvba-sdk-0.74-404001.tar.gz