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Hi, everyone. |
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I know I'm going to regret asking this... but I've prepared a change to |
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the Portage output format and I think it asks for a wider discussion |
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than internally in Portage team. |
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The primary problem with the current output format is that different |
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kinds of messages differ only in color. This makes them |
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indistinguishable without colors and hard to grep. ago's been asking |
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for a better way to grep for QA warnings and this is pretty much what |
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motivated me to do this. |
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The proposed new format distinguished message types both using colors |
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and strings. This is roughly inspired by Xorg logs. For example, |
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instead of: |
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* some message |
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* other message |
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* hell if i know what this is |
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You get: |
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[WW] some message |
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[EE] other message |
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[QA] hell if i know what this is |
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I've also added more colors to explicitly distinguish einfo from elog, |
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and ewarn from eqawarn. Then, I've replaced most of '>>>' and '!!!' |
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used by Portage with four-character versions to keep messages aligned. |
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The 'zings' used for merging files remain three-character, so now it's |
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easily possible to distinguish messages from installed file list. |
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The PR doing this is: https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/759 |
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Example screenshot: |
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https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/110765/135119090-16e9599d-1b0f-41b8-a965-a55577183ffd.png |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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