Bug 357093 – sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.25 non-TTY emerge output contains BS

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Patrick 2011-03-02 15:04:46 UTC]

The output of emerge, even when piped into another command or redirected into a file (and with "--nospinner" option), contains one or more backspace(s).

This is bad because heirloom mailx (mail-client/nail) then puts the text into a file "attachment.bin", instead of leaving it in the mail body, where I want it. I think text output that does not go to a TTY should not have backspaces or any other control characters except tabs and newlines in it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -upvDN --nospinner world 2>&1 | hexdump -e '1/1 "%03d \n"' | grep 008

Actual Results:  
Output: 008 (there is one backspace in the output)

Expected Results:  
No output.

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2011-03-02 16:41:11 UTC]

Thanks, this is fixed in git now:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=bb320d635acb8d745dedf979075331277253167e

[Comment 2 Patrick 2011-03-04 01:15:34 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
Great, that was fast! Thanks! :)

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2011-03-14 19:10:23 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.9.43 and 2.2.0_alpha27.