From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KvMes-00062M-CN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:49:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2E0FE03C4; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:49:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.169]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA8BE03C4 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:49:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 29so313115wff.10 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:49:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=3UmGtbluMgg2T6O8sh3wE64vAJzixuyJ21uJbrlNqOA=; b=btN7nboC6O+NF1V4qlrYkoVFErJZH2WuM+xpQUbA9aFQ0q3a8xmSdVPNl77WQvgQ4i B0TouEepfrFwCSMvpii2mU4hWZ0UL6uOa5yESKgeSoaUKcbeqhADHrcmTYrZo1/nctv8 Zr2bfB3TQVsQQMnhj0l+EAtJLcYpmjKpDio4g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=w0q7y+VkDR51i84T48/3oIMetkMoSn98PiA264EvQmLxjLueCWtv/Dz8XlAq03Jhmc 1Ng9SXLtKBP2mGDLCy9RmbxgSlJ8AvcSrkd/vcNNTUtzloNouLaD8wI0xnRSFboPUGKI Tw+7TQwogKgYNSMX6xp+re5QCLSUzpwDSOuo4= Received: by 10.142.237.20 with SMTP id k20mr4352848wfh.225.1225331347218; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:49:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.215.4 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:49:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <58965d8a0810291849u690064b9y2e3e4e37f99574b4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:49:07 -0500 From: "Paul Hartman" Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A question about emerge --info In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Disposition: inline References: <58965d8a0810291553x50e4068ehc58834dfdbce285b@mail.gmail.com> <350fc7cf0810291609v335f4909nbcd90ab7d368cb5d@mail.gmail.com> <350fc7cf0810291623j5fb5608rf311cd0d2a371d2a@mail.gmail.com> <350fc7cf0810291657t20e74d6ag70b05bf8e23973ba@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6057de33f29c85c4 X-Archives-Salt: 8537fe38-7c32-44a4-9c13-64f47d58beb2 X-Archives-Hash: 112a9abd67e5d31b10e522d8bd824ab3 On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Andrey Vul 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