From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8SA4-00047j-Fg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:33:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7Q0UtMK027342; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:30:55 GMT Received: from mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.49]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7Q0PtkU026496 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:25:56 GMT Received: from aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050826002714.VVXS9239.mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:27:14 +0100 Received: from winn.cable.ntl.com ([82.5.33.210]) by aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050826002714.UEZN23288.aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@winn.cable.ntl.com> for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:27:14 +0100 From: Tony Davison Organization: none To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge output Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:27:11 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <017e01c5a9c8$fa706370$0501a8c0@croatus> <430E58D4.90200@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <430E58D4.90200@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508260127.11405.tony.davison2@ntlworld.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j7Q0UtMd027342 X-Archives-Salt: 00b42437-1aef-458c-9aff-8b11e01088ac X-Archives-Hash: 1ade13286279b644048fbc1e2ec54e6d On Friday 26 August 2005 00:48, Holly Bostick wrote: > John Dangler schreef: > > I just did an emerge =E2=80=93uDv world=E2=80=A6 > > > > > > > > during the course of the 22 packages (a lot considering I just > > loaded this last night), I got some messages saying =E2=80=9Cplease m= ake > > sure you run =E2=80=A6 (I couldn=E2=80=99t read it all since it went = by so fast)=E2=80=A6 I > > got a couple of these before it was over. Is there a way to view > > that output after the fact? I didn=E2=80=99t see it in either dmesg o= r any > > of the /var/log files=E2=80=A6 > > > > > > > > Thanks for the input. > > Idea #1: if you know the name of the file or files that had an einfo > message (if you don't know the names, try looking at the end > /var/log/emerge.log to see the packages most recently emerged), just > open the ebuild in a text editor and read it at your leisure. > > Idea #2: In whatever console you use, change the size of the > scrollback buffer to something that seems ridiculously high (my > buffer is 30000 lines). For most emerges -- even in groups of 20 or > more-- this should be enough to allow you to scroll back and read any > einfo messages that you may have noticed. This won't so much work for > emerges that are themselves more than 30000 lines (for instance, if I > emerge gcc and then glibc, I won't be able to scroll back and see any > messages I missed in the gcc emerge once the glibc emerge is an hour > or so in, but usually it's good enough). > > Idea #3: there is a way (and possibly more than one) to tail out the > einfo messages, either to a file, or to the console, but > unfortunately I don't remember what they are atm.... Oh, wait, > they're listed on the Wiki: > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Portage_utilities_not_in_portage > > I think what you might want is portlog-info, which is in the > Informational Utilities section. > There is a little gadget called 'enotice that I use but I';m b*****d if=20 I can remember where I got it from, perhaps the above URL. Just had a look in /usr/sbin/enotice its python script by a guy called=20 Eldad Zack =20 HTH --=20 Tony Davison tony.davison2@ntlworld.com Its late, I'm tired and out of ciggies, bed time. --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list