Re: [gentoo-user] A question about emerge --info

["Paul Hartman" <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Andrey Vul <andrey.vul@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Good digging around :). So this is a python bug then? Or does portage need
>> to be update for some change that went into python? Actually, is this really
>> even a bug...its just a minor cosmetic problem really.
>>
> One's bug is another's feature.
> libc in uname is honestly WTF but this begs the real question: why
> doesn't portage (emerge and repoman to be specific) simply get the
> output of uname -a ? It's not written in C, you don't have to mess
> around with 5-6 fd's to get the needed data.
>
> And I think that this is both a design bug and a red herring.
>
> By the way, should I make a bug report with a patch to remove this issue?
> Making it selectable via FEATURES requires more digging around in portage.
> --
> Andrey Vul

Dear Andrey & Andrey, thanks for the good info & ideas :)

For the record, my uname -a is:

Linux e6600 2.6.27-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 23 17:45:32 CDT
2008 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel
GNU/Linux

Compared to that line from emerge --info:

System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6600_@_2.40GHz-with-glibc2.2.5

Regards,
Paul