On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > When doing an update using the -l option of emerge, eg: > > emerge -uDNl world > > The ChangeLog entries that are displayed seem buggy to me. For example, > sometimes a whole page worth of changes from a single ChangeLog is > displayed, containing entries for ebuilds older than what is currently > installed. Some other times it's less dramatic, but still contains stuff > 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.