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From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: waltdnes@××××××××.org
Subject: Re: Can we have process names and stdout / stderr indication to more efficiently parse build logs? (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: escape sequences in logs)
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 20:16:12
Message-Id: 20130903221539.4d89b298@TOMWIJ-GENTOO
In Reply to: Re: Can we have process names and stdout / stderr indication to more efficiently parse build logs? (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: escape sequences in logs) by Walter Dnes
1 On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 15:43:44 -0400
2 "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
3
4 > Similar to...
5 >
6 > USE="foo bar" emerge blah blah blah
7 >
8 > ...can the average user do something like...
9 >
10 > TERM="dumb" emerge blah blah blah
11
12 That sounds like a very rare occasion, from all the bugs I have dealt
13 with I have not seen any dumb terminal escape codes so far. And if
14 there would be one, it wouldn't be hard to strip them for that one...
15
16 > I don't believe very many users or admins babysit an entire 2 hour
17 > "emerge --deep --update @world" session, hitting {CTRL-S} when some
18 > colour pops up.
19
20 That is not what this is about, this is about having escape sequences
21 in build logs obtained from Bugzilla; because, they aid in skimming
22 through logs (until we implement the feature I asked for in subject).
23
24 --
25 With kind regards,
26
27 Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
28 Gentoo Developer
29
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