[gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

[gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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How can I find out the last few things I emerged? I've tried the docs, but I 
can't seem to find a helpful query, and
my attempts to browse my way to it have failed.

My reason is that I've been trying to track down the reasons why the latest 
ebuilds of libgphoto2 and of wine are
failing, and in the process, I think I omitted --oneshot on some of my 
emerges. I like to clean 'world' when I can.

Anyway, just a pointer would be good.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

[John Jolet]

there's /var/log/emerge.log

On Aug 31, 2005, at 10:23 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> How can I find out the last few things I emerged?  I've tried the  
> docs, but I can't seem to find a helpful query, and
> my attempts to browse my way to it have failed.
>
> My reason is that I've been trying to track down the reasons why  
> the latest ebuilds of libgphoto2 and of wine are
> failing, and in the process, I think I omitted --oneshot on some of  
> my emerges.  I like to clean 'world' when I can.
>
> Anyway, just a pointer would be good.
>
> -- 
> Kevin O'Gorman

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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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There is indeed. Thanks very much.

++ kevin

On 8/31/05, John Jolet <john@jolet.net> wrote:
> 
> there's /var/log/emerge.log
> 
> On Aug 31, 2005, at 10:23 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> 
> > How can I find out the last few things I emerged? I've tried the
> > docs, but I can't seem to find a helpful query, and
> > my attempts to browse my way to it have failed.
> >
> > My reason is that I've been trying to track down the reasons why
> > the latest ebuilds of libgphoto2 and of wine are
> > failing, and in the process, I think I omitted --oneshot on some of
> > my emerges. I like to clean 'world' when I can.
> >
> > Anyway, just a pointer would be good.
> >
> > --
> > Kevin O'Gorman
> 
> --
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> 
> 


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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:30:56 -0500
John Jolet wrote:

> there's /var/log/emerge.log

not necessarily, it depends whether  you have specified a PORT_LOGDIR=
in /etc/make.conf

> 
> On Aug 31, 2005, at 10:23 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

[John Jolet]

On Aug 31, 2005, at 10:41 PM, Nick Rout wrote:

>
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:30:56 -0500
> John Jolet wrote:
>
>
>> there's /var/log/emerge.log
>>
>
> not necessarily, it depends whether  you have specified a PORT_LOGDIR=
> in /etc/make.conf
>
>
good point.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

[Matan Peled]

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John Jolet wrote:
> good point.

Isn't /var/log/emerge.log there anyway, and PORT_LOGDIR= only controls
/var/log/portage/* ?


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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

[Nick Rout]

genlop -l

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:23:24 -0700
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> How can I find out the last few things I emerged? I've tried the docs, but I 
> can't seem to find a helpful query, and
> my attempts to browse my way to it have failed.
> 
> My reason is that I've been trying to track down the reasons why the latest 
> ebuilds of libgphoto2 and of wine are
> failing, and in the process, I think I omitted --oneshot on some of my 
> emerges. I like to clean 'world' when I can.
> 
> Anyway, just a pointer would be good.
> 
> -- 
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RE: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

[John Dangler]

Nick~
where is genlop? (can't locate and no man page, so I'm guessing I need to
emerge something to get it...)

Thanks

John D
 

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genlop -l

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:23:24 -0700
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> How can I find out the last few things I emerged? I've tried the docs, but
I 
> can't seem to find a helpful query, and
> my attempts to browse my way to it have failed.
> 
> My reason is that I've been trying to track down the reasons why the
latest 
> ebuilds of libgphoto2 and of wine are
> failing, and in the process, I think I omitted --oneshot on some of my 
> emerges. I like to clean 'world' when I can.
> 
> Anyway, just a pointer would be good.
> 
> -- 
> Kevin O'Gorman

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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

[Fernando Canizo]

El 01/sep/2005 a las 01:00 -0300, John me decía:
> Nick~
> where is genlop? (can't locate and no man page, so I'm guessing I need to
> emerge something to get it...)
 
Yes you need:

$ eix genlop
* app-portage/genlop 
     Available versions:  0.30.2 ~0.30.3 
     Installed:           no
     Homepage:            http://pollycoke.org/genlop.html
     Description:         A nice emerge.log parser

Always try that before asking, it saves time ;)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 00:00:41 -0400
John Dangler wrote:

> Nick~
> where is genlop? (can't locate and no man page, so I'm guessing I need to
> emerge something to get it...)

emerge genlop (if all else fails try the obvious LOL)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

[Philip Webb]

050831 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> How can I find out the last few things I emerged?

It's all in  /var/log/emerge.log , which just keeps growing.

If you want the detailed messages which run up the screen during an emerge,
goto  /etc/make.conf  & set (dirname to taste)

  PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/emerge-logs

which will add  2  new files to that dir for each emerge you do.

NB this will build up rapidly, so be careful if your disk space is limited.

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Re: OT [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

[Uwe Thiem]

On 01 September 2005 09:30, Philip Webb wrote:

> NB this will build up rapidly, so be careful if your disk space is limited.

I like that: ... if your disk space is limited. Where can I purchase unlimited 
disk space?

Sorry - couldn't resist. ;-)

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Re: OT [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

[Matt Randolph]

Uwe Thiem wrote:

>On 01 September 2005 09:30, Philip Webb wrote:
>
>  
>
>>NB this will build up rapidly, so be careful if your disk space is limited.
>>    
>>
>
>I like that: ... if your disk space is limited. Where can I purchase unlimited 
>disk space?
>
>Sorry - couldn't resist. ;-)
>
>Uwe
>
>  
>

You just have to use one of the many algorithms for infinitely 
compressing random data that have been issued U.S. patents*.  How else 
did you think single floppy based Linux distributions are possible?  ;-)

*5,594,435, 5,486,826, 5,488,364, 5,533,051, and probably others

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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 04:30:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:

> If you want the detailed messages which run up the screen during an
> emerge, goto  /etc/make.conf  & set (dirname to taste)
> 
>   PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/emerge-logs
> 
> which will add  2  new files to that dir for each emerge you do.
> 
> NB this will build up rapidly, so be careful if your disk space is
> limited.

Gzipping them saves a lot of space, i do it from a cron job

$ cat /etc/cron.daily/portagelogs
#!/bin/bash

for f in $(portageq envvar PORT_LOGDIR)/*.log; do
        gzip -f $f 2>/dev/null || echo "Failed to gzip $f"
        done


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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

[Holly Bostick]

Neil Bothwick schreef:
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 04:30:41 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> 
> 
>> If you want the detailed messages which run up the screen during an
>>  emerge, goto  /etc/make.conf  & set (dirname to taste)
>> 
>> PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/emerge-logs
>> 
>> which will add  2  new files to that dir for each emerge you do.
>> 
>> NB this will build up rapidly, so be careful if your disk space is 
>> limited.
> 
> 
> Gzipping them saves a lot of space, i do it from a cron job
> 
> $ cat /etc/cron.daily/portagelogs #!/bin/bash
> 
> for f in $(portageq envvar PORT_LOGDIR)/*.log; do gzip -f $f
> 2>/dev/null || echo "Failed to gzip $f" done
> 
> 

Can they not also be rotated with logrotate (I just set logrotate up to
do this, I think, but since I just did it, and set it for monthy, I
don't know if it works yet)? But honestly, I don't see why I'd need an
emerge.log from 6 months ago anyway (or even last month), so is there
anything wrong with that option? Or have I wasted 2 minutes of time :) ?

Holly

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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:30:18 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:

> > Gzipping them saves a lot of space, i do it from a cron job
> > 
> > $ cat /etc/cron.daily/portagelogs #!/bin/bash
> > 
> > for f in $(portageq envvar PORT_LOGDIR)/*.log; do gzip -f $f
> > 2>/dev/null || echo "Failed to gzip $f" done
> > 
> > 
> 
> Can they not also be rotated with logrotate (I just set logrotate up to
> do this, I think, but since I just did it, and set it for monthy, I
> don't know if it works yet)? But honestly, I don't see why I'd need an
> emerge.log from 6 months ago anyway (or even last month), so is there
> anything wrong with that option? Or have I wasted 2 minutes of time :) ?

These are the individual log files, two  per emerge, in PORT_LOGDIR.

Using logrotate on emerge.log would save space, but would affect the use
of genlop --current, which uses this file to estimate emerge times. It's
probably not worth rotating, my desktop has only accumulated 6MB of data
in 15 months, my server has 2.2MB after 33 months. On the other
hand, /var/log/portage on the desktop is 88MB gzipped (almost 1GB
unpacked) and well overdue for a clear out.


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