Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 28 June 2008, Philip Webb wrote:
> > your manually maintained log is entirely redundant if you emerge
> > Genlop
>
> How so ? -- the site given by 'eix genlop' simply goes on re Perl.

emerge genlop.

When it runs it essentially parses /var	log/emerge.log and gives output 
like so:

     Sat Jun 28 22:09:53 2008 >>> dev-util/git-1.5.6.1
     Sat Jun 28 22:12:28 2008 >>> x11-themes/qtcurve-0.59.3
     Sat Jun 28 22:14:30 2008 >>> x11-themes/qtcurve-qt4-0.59.4

The benefit is that there is no chance to accidentally omit recording an 
update if you do it manually.

> > and by telling portage to log to disk there is no real need
> > to sit glued to the screen watching console output anymore.
>
> I know: I have  280 MB  in  /var/log/emerge-logs  (wry smile).
>
> Anyway, I've just done my weekly update.  There were  4  pkgs to
> process -- eselect-ctags fetchmail autoconf shared-mime-info -- &
> also  eix , which has a new version in testing (safe enough for eix).
> Of course, I make use of Konsole tabs to facilitate eix & emerge,
> update 'pkg.ref' with Gvim running on another KDE desktop
> & use Klipper to copy info between Konsole & Gvim.
>
> I've been doing it this way for nearly 8 years
> & have never run into a serious problem: HTH one or two others
> (smile).

:-)

I prefer to just let the software do what it's best at - mindless 
execution of instructions - and I get on with what I'm best at - not 
mindlessly executing instructions. I figure that if an emerge fails, it 
will do so with identical output whether I use emerge world or emerge 
package. If an ebuild outputs important warnings and/or info it's in 
the log file where I can examine it at leisure. I've never yet seen a 
case where emerge package would have left me in a better position than 
emerge world intelligently used. The closest case was expat, but 
nothing in the emerge procedure would have prepared me for the result 
of that - one had to emerge it to then discover the resulting breakage. 
These days we have @preserved-rebuild to handle even that.

I guess we all have our favoured way of doing updates.
-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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