Re: [gentoo-user] how can I make "emerge --sync" less verbose?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Wednesday 14 July 2010 19:45:46 Florian Philipp wrote:

> Portage relies on rsync for it's emerge --sync. You can add extra
> command line parameters to the rsync call by specifying them in the
> variable
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
> in your /etc/make.conf
>
> Take a look at `man rsync` for a list of possible options and `man
> make.conf` for a list of all default options.
>
> For example, you could specify --out-format '.'
> That way, for every file it will only print a single dot and a line
> feed. That way, you can still monitor progress with a minimum of
> traffic.

What rsync should do, as I suggested recently , is not mention any 
directory in which it does no work.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.          Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.