Re: [gentoo-dev] force verbose build log as per PMS policy?

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 13:08:10 +0200
Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:24:12 +0200
> Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > hasufell schrieb:
> > > When I sum that up again...
> > > - we are on gentoo and need as much information as possible for
> > > backtracing, resolving bugs, checking whether CFLAGS and such have
> > > been respected
> > > - no need to tell the user to recompile with
> > > EXTRA_ECONF="--disable-silent-rules" or similar just to be able to
> > > help him
> > > - some QA checks might depend on verbose build log and are not yet
> > > implemented therefor
> > > - if people want nice build _output_ (not log), they can use
> > > --quiet-build
> > 
> > Sorry that I am late to the party, but I would add some concerns to
> > this discussion.
> > 
> > Verbose build logs are can be several times as large as non-verbose
> > ones, which can run into our Bugzilla's attachment size limit. When
> > a user is unable to attach the build.log file, typically one of the
> > following happens:
> 
> About that -- maybe we should finally consider increasing it?
> Nowadays, HTTP is able to handle transparent compression, so plain
> text logs are pretty fine there.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430160

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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