Opened 7 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

#52973 new enhancement

add setting to allow main.log truncation

Reported by: RJVB (René Bertin) Owned by:
Priority: Low Milestone:
Component: base Version:
Keywords: Cc: jmroot (Joshua Root), mkae (Marko Käning), kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)
Port:

Description

Hi,

Looking at the changes in master/head I noticed commit 0be55cb9 from March 16th 2016 which changed logfile truncation to appending.

I can imagine how this would be of interest for some forms of port maintenance, but I see 2 main reasons why the previous truncation approach was better:

  • hunting down build errors from a trac report is usually easier if one can request the reporter to do a 2nd port build or port destroot run and upload the shorter logfile too. This is all the more true when the log is made on a recent Mac that has 8 cores or even more.
  • logfiles can grow significantly if one does incremental builds during (-devel) port development without frequent port cleans.

Ideally truncation/append would be controlled by a setting in macports.conf that determines the default, with a possibility to override that default on the commandline.

Change History (6)

comment:1 Changed 7 years ago by larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)

Priority: NormalLow
Summary: main.log truncation optionadd setting to allow main.log truncation

comment:2 in reply to:  description Changed 7 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Replying to RJVB:

  • hunting down build errors from a trac report is usually easier if one can request the reporter to do a 2nd port build or port destroot run and upload the shorter logfile too.

We do the opposite: If a user has submitted a bug report with a truncated log, we ask them to redo the build from scratch and attach the full log. It's the first thing mentioned in the bug reporting instructions.

comment:3 Changed 7 years ago by mkae (Marko Käning)

Cc: mkae added

comment:4 Changed 7 years ago by RJVB (René Bertin)

Please note that I mentioned the short log as a 2nd attachment.

comment:5 in reply to:  4 Changed 7 years ago by larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)

There is no reason to ask for a second attachment that by definition contains less information than the first one.

comment:6 Changed 7 years ago by kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)

Cc: kurthindenburg added

I find this change to be annoying as well - it just causes you to have to remember to do a 'port clean' to avoid previous errors in the log

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