Emerge ignoring make.conf entries [was Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ignoring -v switch]

[Indi]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 03:40:01PM +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> that is not the verbose flag, but silent-build.

Hmm, I always thought the "-v" was the verbose switch, and that it should
work properly regardless of what's in make.conf. It *used* to work
properly here, I've been using "emerge -vauND world" to update for ages...

> If you want the old
> behaviour back, you can add
>
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
>
> to your make.conf
>

Thanks for the suggestion, but there is no change here from trying it.
I expected that, as nothing was changed in make.conf in the first place. 
I see on planet.gentoo.org they implemented this change (eselect never
informed me of it, BTW, which is extremely poor practice) last month -- 
apparently it broke something here.

Unfortunately about five days passed before I had occasion to notice it, 
so now I don't have a clean backup that doesn't share the problem. :\

Even including this in make.conf, I still get "quiet-build mode":

EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--verbose"

The only thing that works is manually using "--quiet-build=n" on the 
command line, so it seems the real problem here is "emerge ignoring 
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS entries in make.conf". Sunject line has been
appropriately updated..  

On an entirely other subject, I see the mail2news gateway still breaks
threads -- what, a year after I first pointed it out? *sigh* 
Ok, my apologies for using it, but really I just cannot justify the ratio 
of 24k recieved emails to one sent, so I really have to use the usenet
group to read and reply. As long as it's broken, my posts will break
threads -- sorry! Got too much else to do to fiddle about with that.

indi


> On 03.12.2011 15:23, Indi wrote:
> > Howdy y'all,
> >
> > About a month or so ago I did an update which seems to have caused
> >  portage to lose the ability to work verbosely. Ever since it looks
> > like this: <paste> idd@gh:[~]9:07:23 $ sudo emerge -vauND
> > adobe-flash
> >
> > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> >
> > Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild     U  ]
> > sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r1 [2.14.1] USE="nls -debug -gd -glibc-omitfp
> > (-hardened) (-multilib) -profile (-selinux) -vanilla" 150 kB
> > [ebuild   R    ] sys-devel/binutils-2.22  USE="nls zlib%*
> > -multislot -multitarget -static-libs -test -vanilla" 0 kB [ebuild
> > U  ] dev-libs/openssl-1.0.0e-r1 [1.0.0e] USE="bindist kerberos sse2
> > zlib -gmp -rfc3779 -static-libs% -test" 3,950 kB [ebuild     U  ]
> > net-misc/curl-7.23.1 [7.22.0] USE="ipv6 ssl threads -ares -gnutls
> > -idn -kerberos -ldap -nss -ssh% -static-libs -test (-libssh2%)"
> > 2,321 kB [ebuild     U  ] dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.25 [2.1.23-r6]
> > USE="berkdb openldap ssl -authdaemond -gdbm -java -kerberos
> > -ldapdb% -mysql -pam -postgres -sample -sqlite% -srp -static-libs%
> > -urandom (-crypt%*) (-ntlm_unsupported_patch%)" 5,088 kB [ebuild
> > U  ] dev-vcs/git-1.7.8 [1.7.8_rc4] USE="blksha1 cgi curl cvs iconv
> > perl python subversion threads webdav -doc -emacs -gtk (-ppcsha1)
> > -tk -xinetd" 3,941 kB
> >
> > Total: 6 packages (5 upgrades, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads:
> > 15,448 kB
> >
> > Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y
> >>>> Verifying ebuild manifests Starting parallel fetch Emerging
> >>>> (1 of 6) sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r1 Jobs: 0 of 6 complete, 1
> >>>> running                Load avg: 2.16, 1.66, 1.10
> >
> > </paste>
> >
> > Remerged python, verified the right python via eselect, remerge
> > portage, etc etc etc etc I just can't seem to get proper output
> > from emerge anymore no matter what. Other than that everything is
> > working fine, but I do need to see actual output.
> >
> > Anyone know what to do to fix this?
> >
> > TIA!
> >
>
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