Gentoo Archives: gentoo-security

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Cc: Mark Guertin <guertin@××××××××××××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] ewarn/einfo behavior (was Samba Testing Help)
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 03:20:17
Message-Id: 200404132319.22479.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] ewarn/einfo behavior (was Samba Testing Help) by Mark Guertin
1 On Tuesday 13 April 2004 10:25 am, Mark Guertin wrote:
2 > Most times you have to either a) log the entire build and go through it
3 > by hand to figure out if there was crucial info that you missed or b)
4 > go back after the fact and manually look at any ebuilds that were
5 > installed to see if there are in fact ewarn's or einfo's in them.
6
7 negative
8 set PORT_LOGDIR in make.conf and then watch it be populated by
9 einfo/ewarn/etc...
10 i dont think it's an ideal solution but it's a *much* better solution than
11 what you have above ... if perhaps portage would just cat all these files
12 together and pipe it into $PAGER after the entire `emerge` is done, that'd be
13 a *huge* gain ...
14
15 for example, today i emerged quake2-icculus:
16 $ less /var/log/portage/11126-quake2-icculus-0.15-r1.log
17 prerm
18 postrm
19 postinst
20 * Remember, in order to play games, you have to
21 * be in the 'games' group.
22
23 * See the usermod(8) manpage for more information.
24
25 * Go read /usr/share/doc/quake2-icculus-0.15-r1/README-postinstall.gz right
26 now!
27 * It's important- This install is just the engine, you still need
28 * the data paks. Go read.
29 unpack
30 >>> Unpacking source...
31 >>> Unpacking quake2-r0.15.tar.gz
32 to /var/tmp/portage/quake2-icculus-0.15-r1/work
33 * Applying 0.15-Makefile-noopts.patch... [ ok ]
34 * Applying 0.15-Makefile-optflags.patch... [ ok ]
35 * Applying 0.15-gentoo-path.patch... [ ok ]
36 >>> Source unpacked.
37 -mike
38
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