[gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

[gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I've seen  mention of something called an "ewarn", which makes me hope it's
related to those messages that fly by when I'm doing a big emerge update.
I always mean to go back and look at them, but they get scrolled off.

A modest amount of googling turned up nothing I could understand.

So: in plain English, is "ewarn" something I should know about?  If so,
where can I read about it?  If it's what I supposed it is, do they get
saved somewhere?

++ kevin

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

[Alexander Skwar]

Kevin O'Gorman schrieb:
> I've seen  mention of something called an "ewarn", which makes me hope it's
> related to those messages that fly by when I'm doing a big emerge update.

It is.

> So: in plain English, is "ewarn" something I should know about?

If the ebuild makes correct use of ewarn and einfo, then I'd say,
yes, you should know about it.

>  If so,
> where can I read about it?

Read about? What an ewarn is, or about the message that was shown?
If it is the latter, have a look at PORTAGE_ELOG_* in /etc/make.conf.example
and copy what you need to make.conf.

>  If it's what I supposed it is, do they get
> saved somewhere?

If you configure it so.

Alexander Skwar
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Re: [gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

[Justin R Findlay]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:02:10PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I've seen  mention of something called an "ewarn", which makes me hope it's
> related to those messages that fly by when I'm doing a big emerge update.
> I always mean to go back and look at them, but they get scrolled off.

In >=portage-2.1, check out the documentation on the ELOG set of
configuration settings in /etc/make.conf.example.


Justin
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Re: [gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

[Thomas Cort]

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On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:02:10 -0700
"Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:

> If so, where can I read about it?

http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/messages/index.html

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

[Arnau Bria]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:02:10 -0700
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

[...]
> So: in plain English, is "ewarn" something I should know about?  If
> so, where can I read about it?  If it's what I supposed it is, do
> they get saved somewhere?

take a look to enotice:
http://www.fmp.com/enotice/

> ++ kevin
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Re: [gentoo-user] What's an ewarn?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On 7/13/06, Arnau Bria <arnau@emergetux.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:02:10 -0700
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
> [...]
> > So: in plain English, is "ewarn" something I should know about?  If
> > so, where can I read about it?  If it's what I supposed it is, do
> > they get saved somewhere?
>
> take a look to enotice:
> http://www.fmp.com/enotice/
>
> > ++ kevin
> Cheers!
> --
> Arnau Bria


Thanks to all for the responses.  I'm now awash in email notices, and feeling
a bit more confident.

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