Bug 125261 – emerge --quiet --sync has output

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Preston Crow 2006-03-06 09:39:53 UTC]

If you run:
  emerge -q --sync
or
  emerge -q --metadata

there should be no output on success.  For the sync operation, three blank lines are printed.  For the metadata option, it also prints out that it's skipping the sync.

[Comment 1 solar (RETIRED) 2006-03-06 10:34:30 UTC]

You failed to post. 'emerge info'
Please do that now.

[Comment 2 Preston Crow 2006-03-06 10:38:16 UTC]

# emerge --info

Portage 2.1_pre5-r4 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15.4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15.4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1, 2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mtune=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/X11/app-defaults /etc/X11/fs /etc/X11/rstart /etc/X11/twm /etc/X11/xdm /etc/gconf /etc/sound /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/kde /usr/lib/X11/xkb /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mtune=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks notitles sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.noved.org/ ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X aac alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt cups dba dga dvb dvd eds emboss encode exif fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 guile imap imlib java jpeg kerberos libg++ libwww lirc lm_sensors mad md5sum mikmod mjpeg mmx mmx2 mng motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mp3 mpeg mysql mythtv ncurses no-htdocs nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss parse-clocks pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real sdl session spell sse ssl svg tcltk tcpd theora tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vcd vorbis win32codecs xml2 xmms xv xvid xvmc zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

#

[Comment 3 Preston Crow 2006-07-22 08:22:53 UTC]

Now with portage-2.1.1_pre3-r3, I get more than blank lines:

# emerge -q --sync

q: Updating ebuild cache ... 
q: Finished 24156 entries in 0.213428 seconds
# 

One blank line and two lines of output.

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2006-07-22 15:22:34 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> q: Updating ebuild cache ... 
> q: Finished 24156 entries in 0.213428 seconds

That's caused by /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize which is installed by portage-utils.

[Comment 5 solar (RETIRED) 2006-07-24 13:08:48 UTC]

I'll hunt for the variable which portage exports and make the next 
portage-utils respect that directly as if it was invoked with the -q option also.

[Comment 6 solar (RETIRED) 2006-07-24 13:30:16 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I'll hunt for the variable which portage exports and make the next 
> portage-utils respect that directly as if it was invoked with the -q option
> also.
fixed in portage-utils/main.c: revision: 1.122; When q* detects the variable 
PORTAGE_QUIET it will behave the same as q -q -r vs q -r

In the mean time to can either remove the executable bit from q-reinitialize or 
edit the script to pass the -q option.

I don't know where that other echo is comming from. Somewhere within 
portage or ebuild.sh probably.

[Comment 7 Rick Altherr 2006-10-25 19:30:14 UTC]

I'm still seeing this with portage-2.1.1-r1.  It means I get an email from cron nightly.  This should be an easy fix.  Could we have this escalated above a p5?

[Comment 8 Zac Medico 2006-10-25 20:14:55 UTC]

I thought they fixed portage-utils to honor --quiet.  What version of portage-utils do you have?  Anyway you can completely disable post-sync cruft like this:

chmod -x /etc/portage/bin/post_sync

[Comment 9 Preston Crow 2006-10-26 05:42:02 UTC]

sys-apps/portage-2.1.2_pre3-r8
app-portage/portage-utils-0.1.21

It is noisier than when I created this bug report--it used to just be blank lines; not there are text lines, too.

[Comment 10 Rick Warner 2007-01-27 03:36:51 UTC]

As of portage 2.1.1-r2, I get 1 blank line of output.  Editting /usr/bin/emerge and removing the print command from line 2536 resolved it for me.

[Comment 11 solar (RETIRED) 2007-01-27 06:54:55 UTC]

(In reply to comment #10)
> As of portage 2.1.1-r2, I get 1 blank line of output.  Editting /usr/bin/emerge
> and removing the print command from line 2536 resolved it for me.

Thats not related to this bug is it? I don't think so.. 
Problems with portage/emerge should be handled via another bug.. 
please. line # and patches please.

Or if this bug should cover non portage-utils then please reassign it.

[Comment 12 Rick Warner 2007-01-27 23:54:46 UTC]

The original problem report was of getting output from running "emerge --quiet --sync".  That's the same problem that I was having, and removing that print statement resolved it.

[Comment 13 Zac Medico 2007-01-28 01:10:10 UTC]

(In reply to comment #10)
> As of portage 2.1.1-r2, I get 1 blank line of output.  Editting /usr/bin/emerge
> and removing the print command from line 2536 resolved it for me.

Thanks, I've removed that in svn r5799.

[Comment 14 Zac Medico 2007-01-29 03:23:43 UTC]

This has been released in 2.1.2-r5.