From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mjflt-0006Nh-CC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:52:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32F60E097A; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 20:52:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f211.google.com (mail-fx0-f211.google.com [209.85.220.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED618E097A for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 20:52:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so890488fxm.34 for ; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:52:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=BHhuF/dSpBUpLfux6Z4yVMVB9cYwix/AyhS0tI3+nOg=; b=PzkufT4oBXj3TY7wcPQ0YZRGBXZej/E9hlOBJdFZN8/P+IRd1uf4YHHltlZ9upl21S 3nKFZABdmUwXiT7NPz/uF7/cpb9j3C651gm28tpwf8SyWqiOM2TfUjOOViNWL88wuDx1 q2tFGzZw6g+2yE3FKEYnQqsZe6+mx6yFAY3Os= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=VCQ9rt2gH5bMo5SQKdff21Dtp+K/W6IchL6xnlSWmiv1XBaqjE3iEgV2ppirnxPuo3 lKukogdm3scyXw6Xg2p5wuYST/qce9nUXQJb4q5zLZnuNfYUgtCO1A2BRlacmolGsT06 OE+qDYco1ngqtLkgNOua8Q5kVska7pVCMS8O0= Received: by 10.86.17.27 with SMTP id 27mr5384726fgq.31.1252097555441; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:52:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-140-68-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.140.68]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l19sm2497138fgb.1.2009.09.04.13.52.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:52:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blocked packages emerging xfce4-meta Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 22:51:02 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <20090904060908.823ED8BA@resin13.mta.everyone.net> <200909041540.48099.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20090904144240.GA15903@princeton.edu> In-Reply-To: <20090904144240.GA15903@princeton.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909042251.02611.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: e713de8c-c5fc-4534-8b61-4067b56a0dca X-Archives-Hash: ce052fc23bd1152c4fb4fcaf81ef29d2 On Friday 04 September 2009 16:42:40 Willie Wong wrote: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 03:40:48PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > > Copy paste from the screen into a mail > > > > or try with -pv instead of -av. > > -a waits for user input and can screw around with STDOUT > > Also, try adding 2>&1 to your redirect to send STDERR to the file too. > I'm not sure whether it is the case here, but oftentimes error messages > are not printed on STDOUT. In this case the poster is talking about emerge's normal output. While this may be many things, it will never ever be sent to STDERR so the inclusion of 2> is certain to change nothing. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com