Re: [gentoo-user] idea on updates

[Dale]

Matt Harrison wrote:
> Joshua D Doll wrote:
>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:22:00 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Why, could the dev add an option that parses out all of those
>>>> pesky admin things into either a singular log file? Or better
>>>> yet, a gui popup that lists just those instructions for each
>>>> package. Then a lazy admin could go through them, take whatever
>>>> action necessary, and then just kill the pop-up.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Do you mean like the elog system that can write this information to a
>>> separate log file, email it to you, pass it to a command or any
>>> combination of these? There are also elog viewers in portage,
>>> although I
>>> have no experience of these, I use my mailer to read these messages.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I concur elog is great. I have it e-mail me a single file after I've
>> run updates or installed anything. It's stupid simple to setup too.
>
> Sounds like a really useful tool, but I can't see where to get it.
>
> According to eix, the only elog tools are direct viewers. I'd really
> like one that can email me, where can I find it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt
>
>
>

I don't use the email feature but I got this from man make.conf:

PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES

       PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM

       PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND

       PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI

       PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM

       PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT
              Please see /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for 
elog documentation.

I would look at the make.conf.example file to see how to set that up.

Dale

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