Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Joshua D Doll <joshua.doll@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] idea on updates
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:05:39
Message-Id: 48B7212E.3050502@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] idea on updates by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:22:00 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >> Why, could the dev add an option that parses out all of those
6 >> pesky admin things into either a singular log file? Or better
7 >> yet, a gui popup that lists just those instructions for each
8 >> package. Then a lazy admin could go through them, take whatever
9 >> action necessary, and then just kill the pop-up.
10 >>
11 >
12 > Do you mean like the elog system that can write this information to a
13 > separate log file, email it to you, pass it to a command or any
14 > combination of these? There are also elog viewers in portage, although I
15 > have no experience of these, I use my mailer to read these messages.
16 >
17 >
18 >
19 I concur elog is great. I have it e-mail me a single file after I've run
20 updates or installed anything. It's stupid simple to setup too.
21
22
23 --Joshua Doll

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] idea on updates Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] idea on updates Matt Harrison <iwasinnamuknow@×××××××××.com>