Bug 324191 – new portage option: FEATURES=compress-build-logs

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Zac Medico 2010-06-16 00:19:33 UTC]

The idea is to compress build logs as they are written, in order to facilitate the publishing of compressed tinderbox logs on a web server. Since the portage code opens the build log many times in many places, it's not very convenient to pass an open file descriptor to all those places. However, it's possible to open the file in append mode with the gzip.GzipFile() class. A helper function can be used to open the file based on the current FEATURES settings.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2010-06-16 00:38:47 UTC]

probably best to not encode a compression schema in the feature name

[Comment 2 DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP 2010-06-20 12:30:32 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> probably best to not encode a compression schema in the feature name
> 

I agree; otherwise, we could end up in collision. One feature for compression, and one extra variable for the algo (default to gz please, to easily use zcat and zgrep).

[Comment 3 DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP 2010-06-20 12:34:57 UTC]

Different approach proposed in bug 324729 .

[Comment 4 Sebastian Luther (few) 2010-07-13 08:13:17 UTC]

*** Bug 328063 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2010-08-21 18:30:00 UTC]

This is in git now:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=42cab46428e69cf7423053b10940a275c38c04ff

[Comment 6 Zac Medico 2010-08-23 06:24:55 UTC]

This is in 2.2_rc68, but I'll leave this bug open until it's in an unmasked version.

[Comment 7 Zac Medico 2010-09-04 08:32:58 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.9.