From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20903 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Nov 2003 01:11:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 26627 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2003 01:11:57 -0000 Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 02:11:55 +0100 From: Camille Huot To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20031105021155.57544663.cam@cameuh.net> In-Reply-To: <20031104194314.E5352@leftmind.net> References: <3FA5AF6F.5030501@codewordt.co.uk> <20031103021652.GA29426@cerberus.oppresses.us> <20031104194314.E5352@leftmind.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: "v8?M!?Y1G^m;"k!f(u;;TN&=M|pN=I8&g6|yx|g='GeH|G{S[RM{}I5*V&RY/hmqbvI(_LvPZ.-cg~$iefMheL)HUKWU)xi=#jmvnHk=eOcp6T^fT%#Er6u(bB9HrW8@'}unu$}F<:14h>epp$:Kt|j&R/O[wqiE}wDO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Signature=_Wed__5_Nov_2003_02_11_55_+0100_37qGyaSQGzLCpTDQ" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email) X-Archives-Salt: 2cb1f983-687c-4972-b924-7ed59308cc86 X-Archives-Hash: 97405ca81db84acce5197c95d2ca8430 --Signature=_Wed__5_Nov_2003_02_11_55_+0100_37qGyaSQGzLCpTDQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:43:14 -0500 Anthony de Boer wrote: > Jon Portnoy wrote: > > Many, many users use locate and many would complain if it was > > missing. > > On a box where only I have a shell, and never use slocate, it's not > needed and does get annoying when cron kicks in. This is probably a > very good example of something where people can agree to disagree. and > having a well-documented switch is a good thing. > > > ... rm /etc/cron.daily/locatedb.cron ... > > That does it, though chmod -x would be less fatal and more reversible. > I prefer to actually remove the package, though emerge insists on > wanting to put it back in when I update world, so we're having a > wrestling match. emerge inject is your friend > It's probably with good reason that I'm hesitant to muck with > profiles. > > > > On completion of merging the portage ebuild sleeps for ~15 > > > seconds, the baselayout ebuild for ~10 seconds and even > > > dev-sources sleeps for ~5 seconds whilst all these packages > > > display messages. In my opinion, this is downright pointless. On > > > a source distribution like this one especially > > > > Except that it sleeps for _very important messages_. Those timers > > are there because people were totally missing those messages. > > Except that *I* sleep for _very long compiles_. :-) I totally agree these sleeps are not the good way. We're waiting for the buffered messages to the end of the emerge process .. _that_ should solve the problem. (don't forget to remove the beeps too) > Also, I frequently emerge multiple packages at once, and only the > last's tail will still be on my screen when I come back. Even when > I'm awake, I rarely sit and watch the build go by. > > It might be good to have a batch flag to ebuild or in FEATURES that > says not to bother with sleep-and-beep because nobody is around. > > Some tools to find the Very Important Messages in PORT_LOGDIR's > copious output (I have 42 meg of build output there right now) would > be helpful. Ideally I'd be able to come back to the computer and > review all the messages from recently-completed builds. > > Storing the important messages in a release-notes file under > /var/db/pkg/*/*, so they're with the build permanently, might also be > a worthy idea. > > -- > Anthony de Boer > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- Camille Huot - direct contact on #igoan at irc.freenode.net --Signature=_Wed__5_Nov_2003_02_11_55_+0100_37qGyaSQGzLCpTDQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qE5bZa+LFGlJUUoRAuN+AJ9gAXz89jd7esdnR7ojwHW0G7CipACeLpCW edJpkj6k3zXjSQPzfOTUE1k= =KpGl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Wed__5_Nov_2003_02_11_55_+0100_37qGyaSQGzLCpTDQ--