Bug 678632

Summary:	app-portage/portage-utils: qfile "exact" option vaguely documented, weird behaviour
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Fabian Groffen <grobian>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Fabian Groffen <grobian>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2019-02-23 15:34:28 UTC

qfile's -e (exact) option is oddly documented:

Exact match (used with --exclude)

There is no --exclude, and there is no more info to what it does either.  It seems to, however show an "exact package", which is identical to what most other q tools do as well in the -v option (also works in qfile).

In fact, in the code, verbose is implemented using the exact codepath.

It's probably a remant from the past, and best be removed.

Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2019-02-28 19:28:10 UTC

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage-utils.git/commit/?id=951a8711a59b1a7d49125f5f5214ff1ae9e50074

commit 951a8711a59b1a7d49125f5f5214ff1ae9e50074
Author:     Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2019-02-28 19:27:12 +0000
Commit:     Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2019-02-28 19:27:12 +0000

    qfile: drop non-functional --exact option
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/678632
    Signed-off-by: Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>

 man/qfile.1 |  3 ---
 qfile.c     | 11 ++---------
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Comment 2 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2019-06-06 07:32:39 UTC

this is available onwards from 0.80_pre*