Re: [gentoo-user] Piping "emerge -a" to some other command

2022-02-25 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 at 10:00, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > A quick search in the "emerge" manual page for "pars" and "pip" did not > turn up anything I considered relevant. Can anyone give more hints? I'm guessing any proposed solution would fail when what you want to capture has an interactive

Re: [gentoo-user] Piping "emerge -a" to some other command

2022-02-25 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Rich, On Thursday, 2022-02-24 07:10:10 -0500, you wrote: > ... > Wouldn't it be more appropriate to use -p in this case, which will > require no input? Running "emerge -p ..." followed by "emerge ..." without "-p" would run the dependency analysis twice for EVERY package update. Using a

Re: [gentoo-user] Piping "emerge -a" to some other command

2022-02-25 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
John, On Thursday, 2022-02-24 09:59:50 -0500, you wrote: > ... > I use script for that purpose and it works great, the output is > complete and I can just say no and its all there. Nice idea. However, I'd like to keep things as simple as possible, be- cause an important usecase for me is

Re: [gentoo-user] Piping "emerge -a" to some other command

2022-02-25 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Arve, On Friday, 2022-02-25 10:15:18 +0100, you wrote: > ... > I'm guessing any proposed solution would fail when what you want to > capture has an interactive component like this. I think "fail" is the wrong word here. My own scripts send such quest- ions to the same device they retrieve

Re: [gentoo-user] problem installing confluent-kafka from guru

2022-02-25 Thread Alessandro Barbieri
Il giorno mar 22 feb 2022 alle ore 08:02 Anatoly Oreshkin < anatoly.oresh...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > Hello, > > I am a newbie to Gentoo. > As end user I am using package confluent-kafka from guru repository. > To install it I have performed the following steps in command line: > [...] > 6.

Re: [gentoo-user] Piping "emerge -a" to some other command

2022-02-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 11:26:34 +0100, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Nice idea. However, I'd like to keep things as simple as possible, be- > cause an important usecase for me is installing a new or fixing an ex- > isting system after booting from a USB stick. The "script" binary is in > package