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Thus spake Jason Wong on Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:30:37PM CDT |
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> On Thursday 07 October 2004 06:17, Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> > When I do a batch-emerge, such as 'emerge uU world', a lot of important |
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> > informaton on various packages scrolls up the screen. Some of this stuff |
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> > is must-read info, or stuff that would save a lot of time and research if I |
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> > could read it. In Debian, with the ncurses debconf UI, I can swipe the |
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> > important info screens and paste them into a file for review later. They |
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> > all have <OK> buttons so they stay until you dismiss them. In Gentoo |
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> Having dabbled with Debian briefly recently, I was quite impressed with the |
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> fact that an email is sent to the admin/root user which summarises the |
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> "important info" that is displayed after a package is installed. |
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Hmmm. This is a new one on me :-) I track Debian testing on a couple of |
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boxes and haven't seen this yet. This is very much the way it ought to be |
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done. |
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There have been patches for portage going back close to 2 years, that |
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supposedly work well and save output einfo, ewarn and friends to special |
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logs if the proper magic is done in make.conf, but for some reason they've |
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never made it into production Gentoo, and there's no indication if and when |
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they will. I hacked functions.sh and emerge to output this information to |
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file descriptor 3 and this works OK for me for the time being, but I'll have |
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to patch these files again when the hacked files get upgraded. It's about |
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the same, I guess, since the patches published on bugs.gentoo.org have to be |
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reapplied to each upgrade also. |
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