[obsolete] portage-utils: Colored output to files

[teika]

[This thread is obsolete; second edit in Apr 2023]

[First edit of Apr 2023]
As of app-portage/portage-utils-0.94.3, (Apr 2023)
$ q
does print in color, but if you do
$ q > file
it will be colorless. For a workaround, see the next message by Ionen.

Don't submit a wish item to bugzilla and annoy Gentoo developers. If you can, please write a patch to accept an option:
--color=always/auto/never
i.e. as "ls (1)" does.

Thanks.

[Original message]
As of app-portage/portage-utils-0.90,
$ q
does print in color, but if you do
$ q > file
it will be colorless. I wrote a quick patch that makes outputs always in color, unless you pass --nocolor.

Get it here. Save it as /etc/portage/patches/app-portage/portage-utils/notty-color.patch, re-emerge, and you're done.

Don't send it to bugzilla and annoy Gentoo developers. Once you enhance it to
--color=always/auto/never
i.e. as "ls (1)" does, I guess it'll be ok.

Regards.
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[Ionen]

If want to avoid patches in situations like that, can always force it with the script command (from util-linux), like:

[teika]

Thanks. That workaround really helps.

(You're right. As you feared, my patch has to be updated now, and will need to be forever! ;-)

[Goverp]

RTFM?

[Ionen]

Yeah, the --color option wasn't there when this thread was made, but it was added in portage-utils-0.92:
https://github.com/gentoo/portage-utils/commit/03c2d27602bc94aaa1660da7b084d40a9cf70f5d

It's probably the cause of the patch "needing" rebasing

[teika]

@Goverp, Ionen

Sorry & thanks for replying to my obsolete update (oxymoron?) m(_ _)m