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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild ChangeLog and emerge -l
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 16:52:25
Message-Id: BANLkTinQRjoF9oUDO-ppA060po5WtYTEBg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ebuild ChangeLog and emerge -l by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
2 > When doing an update using the -l option of emerge, eg:
3 >
4 >  emerge -uDNl world
5 >
6 > The ChangeLog entries that are displayed seem buggy to me.  For example,
7 > sometimes a whole page worth of changes from a single ChangeLog is
8 > displayed, containing entries for ebuilds older than what is currently
9 > installed.  Some other times it's less dramatic, but still contains stuff
10 > that should not show up.
11
12 You can also take a look at:
13
14 /usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/resolver/output_helpers.py
15
16 It contains the regexp that is used to parse the changelogs and the
17 logic of what is shown and ignored.