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From: Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] All those helpful post emerge messages...
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:26:29
Message-Id: c30988c30912301025j78dff828r27e3365a15786587@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] All those helpful post emerge messages... by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
2 <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Jon Hardcastle wrote:
4 >> Guys,
5 >>
6 >> I have just done an emerge -eva system and it has
7 >>  installed/reinstalled/upgraded ~102 packages. When it finished i noticed
8 >>  some of them had some helpful YOU MUST DO THIS steps and i am wondering do
9 >>  they all have those or does emerge cleverly put all the messages at the
10 >>  end where they can be seen and digested?
11 >>
12 >
13 > emerge elogv
14 > read /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example and learn how to set up elog.
15 > no message is lost ever again.
16 >
17 > but if haven't done it already, you are out of luck.
18
19 Not necessarily... at least on my netbook here (running ~x86), with a
20 very minimal make.conf and not a single line in it regarding elog, I
21 have
22
23 /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log
24
25 ... which just so happens to have every important emerge generated
26 message since 2009-10-09 (which I believe was my original start to
27 this one's build.)
28
29 So... I do believe it might be default behavior now to keep, at the
30 least, a summary log of everything.
31
32 --
33 Poison [BLX]
34 Joshua M. Murphy