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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild ChangeLog and emerge -l
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On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote=
:
> When doing an update using the -l option of emerge, eg:
>
> =A0emerge -uDNl world
>
> The ChangeLog entries that are displayed seem buggy to me. =A0For example=
,
> sometimes a whole page worth of changes from a single ChangeLog is
> displayed, containing entries for ebuilds older than what is currently
> installed. =A0Some other times it's less dramatic, but still contains stu=
ff
> that should not show up.

You can also take a look at:

/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/resolver/output_helpers.py

It contains the regexp that is used to parse the changelogs and the
logic of what is shown and ignored.