Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge messages.

[Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 06:09:02PM +0200, Rhywek wrote:
> Hi, *
> 
> Did you ever wonder how to see the emerge messages after emerge has
> completed its tasks? During emerge/update of most packages there are
> some messages displayed that should not be missed. But sitting in front
> of the console for 40 hours (well, usually less) is not a nice solution.
> 
> My question is: is portage saving those messages somewhere? I have the
> feeling that I miss some important things all the time, because
> sometimes I manage to read some of the messages and they seem VERY
> important (e.g. additional steps one needs to take after emerging).
> 

edit /etc/make.conf

uncomment the line that reads
 PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage
That's where all the logs will go. Just read through them at your
pleasure. Often there will be multiple files created for each
compile, I have a hunch that there's one for pre_inst, one for inst,
and one for post_inst. Anyhow the important messages almost always
show up in the last file. 

W

> Dumping all the emerge output to file and searching for the messages
> does not seem promising too... Also checking which packages were updated
> and browsing theirs ebuilds is not very elegant.
> 
> If you have some interesting solution, please share.
> 
> Greetings,
> Rhywek.
> 
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