Re: [gentoo-dev] logging in portage

[Rufiao Valhacouto <rufiao@gmx.net>]

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 11:01, Alexander Holler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> --On Sonntag, Juni 09, 2002 23:17:33 -0700 George Shapovalov 
> <georges@its.caltech.edu> wrote:
> 
> > It should be easy to call it inside the script you use to emerge packages
> > on  this server. If you desire to make reports on a per-package basis it
> > should  be easy to create the script that would run emerge --pretend
> > packagename  first and then call emerge for every reported package and
> > capture reports  separately...
> > WTF incorporating this into portage itself: I did not see this mentioned
> > (though there were some related things suggested). If you think this is
> > an  important addition please file a feature request to bugs.gentoo.org.
> 
> I would find it useful too, if warnings, comments and so on would be 
> displayed and/or logged separately. Emerge could display those warnings at 
> the end of the whole process (e.g. update world). So none would be getting 
> lost in the mass.

The position of these warnings in the build output is sometimes
important, and it seems that splitting the build output could lose
information. A simple search in the log could point you to the warnings,
errors or anything. Anyway, it may be interesting to have an option to
show only the output warnings/errors/etc. in the interactive output.