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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: chithanh@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] force verbose build log as per PMS policy?
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:22:27
Message-Id: 20120806132135.514b735a@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] force verbose build log as per PMS policy? by "Michał Górny"
1 On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 13:08:10 +0200
2 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:24:12 +0200
5 > Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@g.o> wrote:
6 >
7 > > hasufell schrieb:
8 > > > When I sum that up again...
9 > > > - we are on gentoo and need as much information as possible for
10 > > > backtracing, resolving bugs, checking whether CFLAGS and such have
11 > > > been respected
12 > > > - no need to tell the user to recompile with
13 > > > EXTRA_ECONF="--disable-silent-rules" or similar just to be able to
14 > > > help him
15 > > > - some QA checks might depend on verbose build log and are not yet
16 > > > implemented therefor
17 > > > - if people want nice build _output_ (not log), they can use
18 > > > --quiet-build
19 > >
20 > > Sorry that I am late to the party, but I would add some concerns to
21 > > this discussion.
22 > >
23 > > Verbose build logs are can be several times as large as non-verbose
24 > > ones, which can run into our Bugzilla's attachment size limit. When
25 > > a user is unable to attach the build.log file, typically one of the
26 > > following happens:
27 >
28 > About that -- maybe we should finally consider increasing it?
29 > Nowadays, HTTP is able to handle transparent compression, so plain
30 > text logs are pretty fine there.
31
32 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430160
33
34 --
35 Best regards,
36 Michał Górny

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