Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blocked packages emerging xfce4-meta
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:52:37
Message-Id: 200909042251.02611.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blocked packages emerging xfce4-meta by Willie Wong
1 On Friday 04 September 2009 16:42:40 Willie Wong wrote:
2 > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:40:48PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon
3 squawked:
4 > > Copy paste from the screen into a mail
5 > >
6 > > or try with -pv instead of -av.
7 > > -a waits for user input and can screw around with STDOUT
8 >
9 > Also, try adding 2>&1 to your redirect to send STDERR to the file too.
10 > I'm not sure whether it is the case here, but oftentimes error messages
11 > are not printed on STDOUT.
12
13 In this case the poster is talking about emerge's normal output. While this
14 may be many things, it will never ever be sent to STDERR so the inclusion of
15 2> is certain to change nothing.
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19 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com