"equery check" is used to check the integrity of installed packages. When this command is run interactively, the output looks wonderful, colorized with information clearly collated per-package. But if the output is redirected to a file the formatting is stripped and the relationships between packages and results is lost. It should be possible to run (e.g.) "equery check '*' > /tmp/equery_check.txt" and get usable results. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run "equery check '*' > /tmp/equery_check.txt" 2. Try to figure out what's broken from the contents of /tmp/equery_check.txt
This doesn't appear to be a bug; if you don't want pipe detection, use -N/--no-pipe.
That helps some, but the information is still presented out-of-order/uncollated: davinci ~ # equery -N check 'app-admin/*' 2>&1 | tee eq.txt !!! /etc/logrotate.conf has incorrect MD5sum !!! /etc/sudoers has incorrect MD5sum !!! /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng has incorrect MD5sum * Checking app-admin/apache-tools-2.4.58 ... * Checking app-admin/eselect-1.4.27-r1 ... * Checking app-admin/gnome-system-log-3.9.90 ... * Checking app-admin/keepassxc-2.7.6 ... * Checking app-admin/logrotate-3.21.0 ... * Checking app-admin/openrc-settingsd-1.4.0 ... * Checking app-admin/perl-cleaner-2.31 ... * Checking app-admin/sudo-1.9.15_p5 ... * Checking app-admin/syslog-ng-4.2.0 ... * Checking app-admin/system-config-printer-1.5.18-r1 ... 35 out of 35 files passed 64 out of 64 files passed 68 out of 68 files passed 84 out of 84 files passed 23 out of 24 files passed 35 out of 35 files passed 7 out of 7 files passed 78 out of 79 files passed 497 out of 498 files passed 167 out of 167 files passed Without the -N it's even worse: davinci ~ # equery check 'app-admin/*' 2>&1 | tee eq.txt app-admin/apache-tools-2.4.58: app-admin/eselect-1.4.27-r1: app-admin/gnome-system-log-3.9.90: app-admin/keepassxc-2.7.6: app-admin/logrotate-3.21.0: app-admin/openrc-settingsd-1.4.0: app-admin/perl-cleaner-2.31: app-admin/sudo-1.9.15_p5: app-admin/syslog-ng-4.2.0: app-admin/system-config-printer-1.5.18-r1: failed(0) failed(0) failed(0) failed(0) failed(1) failed(0) failed(0) failed(1) failed(1) failed(0) What I'd expect absent output customization options is for the file to contain the same output as when it's run interactively: davinci ~ # equery check 'app-admin/*' * Checking app-admin/apache-tools-2.4.58 ... 35 out of 35 files passed * Checking app-admin/eselect-1.4.27-r1 ... 64 out of 64 files passed * Checking app-admin/gnome-system-log-3.9.90 ... 68 out of 68 files passed * Checking app-admin/keepassxc-2.7.6 ... 84 out of 84 files passed !!! /etc/logrotate.conf has incorrect MD5sum * Checking app-admin/logrotate-3.21.0 ... 23 out of 24 files passed * Checking app-admin/openrc-settingsd-1.4.0 ... 35 out of 35 files passed * Checking app-admin/perl-cleaner-2.31 ... 7 out of 7 files passed !!! /etc/sudoers has incorrect MD5sum * Checking app-admin/sudo-1.9.15_p5 ... 78 out of 79 files passed !!! /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng has incorrect MD5sum * Checking app-admin/syslog-ng-4.2.0 ... 497 out of 498 files passed * Checking app-admin/system-config-printer-1.5.18-r1 ... 167 out of 167 files passed
