Re: [gentoo-user] Genlop -f not quite right.

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:47:22 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>
>> I renamed my old emerge log file to .old1 to get off to a fresh start
>> with the log file.  It was getting pretty large.  Anyway, to figure out
>> how long something takes to emerge, I use this command and get this
>> response:
>>
> [snip]
>
>
>> Why does it not calculate the current compile time correctly?  Is this a
>> genlop bug or am I doing something wrong?
>>
>
> The latter, I'm afraid. You've told genlop to look at the old log file,
> but the start time of the current emerge is written to the new log file.
> I use genlop -f when the current log file is in a different location
> (when I'm  emerging in a chroot and want to check progress from the
> "parent" OS) and it works fine.
>
> What you are looking for is for genlop to consider multiple log files,
> something it does not currently do. You could file a feature request bug
> report.
>
>
>

That sort of makes sense.  It looks to me like it would see that all the
emerges in the old log were completed.  I may try pointing it to both
files and see if that works any better.  Give it more info if you will. 
Most likely won't work but I doubt it will let the smoke out either.  ;-) 

Thanks for the info.

Dale

:-)  :-)