Bug 390523 – sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.34 and 2.2.0_alpha74 show no build output (--quiet-build enabled by default)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Paul Freeman 2011-11-14 13:01:58 UTC]

In sys-apps/portage-2.2.0_alpha74 the -v (and also --verbose) option appears to be ignored, emerge output looks more like -j2 or > greater has been passed as an argument

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -v <atom>
 

Actual Results:  
non verbose build process

Expected Results:  
verbose build process

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2011-11-14 20:15:27 UTC]

As mentioned in the ebuild ChangeLog, portage-2.2.0_alpha74 has --quiet-build enabled by default:

*portage-2.2.0_alpha74 (11 Nov 2011)

  11 Nov 2011; Zac Medico <[e-mail]> +portage-2.2.0_alpha74.ebuild,
  -portage-2.2.0_alpha73.ebuild:
  2.2.0_alpha74 version bump. This includes the --quiet-build change that's in
  portage-2.1.10.34. Bug #210077 tracks all bugs fixed since portage-2.1.x.

*portage-2.1.10.34 (11 Nov 2011)

  11 Nov 2011; Zac Medico <[e-mail]> +portage-2.1.10.34.ebuild,
  -portage-2.1.10.33.ebuild:
  2.1.10.34 version bump. The emerge --quiet-build option is now enabled by
  default. Set --quiet-build=n in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS if you want to disable it
  by default. See the emerge(1) man page for more information about this option.
  Bug #381649 tracks all bugs fixed since portage-2.1.10.11.

It's also in RELEASE-NOTES, and the portage-2.1.10.34 ebuild triggers an elog message when upgrading from less than portage-2.1.10.34.

[Comment 2 Paul Freeman 2011-11-14 20:22:11 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> As mentioned in the ebuild ChangeLog, portage-2.2.0_alpha74 has --quiet-build
> enabled by default:
> 

1) that does not seem a very sensible default, it should be opt-in not opt-out
2) it makes even less sense that it completely overrides the verbose option

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2011-11-14 20:34:29 UTC]

I'll refer you to my posts on the gentoo-dev mailing list, since all of this has already been discussed there.

(In reply to comment #2)
> 1) that does not seem a very sensible default, it should be opt-in not opt-out

http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_0cfbf36cbac95f40322caa969e034d9c.xml
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_5f78b8be4a123ab77dec1fb1da32a688.xml

> 2) it makes even less sense that it completely overrides the verbose option

http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_b75dca6c685a8d07451a15f93bbf63ee.xml

[Comment 4 Paul Freeman 2011-11-14 20:41:16 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I'll refer you to my posts on the gentoo-dev mailing list, since all of this
> has already been discussed there.
> 
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > 1) that does not seem a very sensible default, it should be opt-in not opt-out
> 
> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_0cfbf36cbac95f40322caa969e034d9c.xml
> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_5f78b8be4a123ab77dec1fb1da32a688.xml
> 
> > 2) it makes even less sense that it completely overrides the verbose option
> 
> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_b75dca6c685a8d07451a15f93bbf63ee.xml

hmmm, well it is defiantly an annoying default for devs ;) but I guess I can see both points :)

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2011-11-29 17:55:37 UTC]

*** Bug 392285 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Zac Medico 2011-12-14 04:50:19 UTC]

Gentoo's council has voted to revert this in their 20111213 meeting, as requested on the gentoo-project mailing list:

http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/msg_4e282bb4e6ac2611de2a39171a803c48.xml

The revert commit is here:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=028f0b0e223861826747b531824319520ef26ddd

[Comment 7 Zac Medico 2011-12-14 23:30:08 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.10.41 and 2.2.0_alpha81.