Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and NetworkManager

[Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 02:18:22PM +0200, András Csányi wrote:
> On 17 July 2013 13:59, Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:04:12AM +0200, András Csányi wrote:
> >> >
> >> > mingdao@jeremiah ~ $ grep plugdev /usr/portage/net-misc/wicd/wicd-1.7.2.4-r*
> >> > mingdao@jeremiah ~ $ grep users /usr/portage/net-misc/wicd/wicd-1.7.2.4-r*
> >> > /usr/portage/net-misc/wicd/wicd-1.7.2.4-r2.ebuild:              ewarn "Wicd-1.6 and newer requires your user to be in the 'users' group. If"
> >> > /usr/portage/net-misc/wicd/wicd-1.7.2.4-r3.ebuild:              ewarn "Wicd-1.6 and newer requires your user to be in the 'users' group. If"
> >>
> >> Ok. How is possible to get the post-install message of an ebuild
> >> without re-emerge the package neither opening the log file? The man
> >> page of emerge cannot say anything about it.
> >
> > Read the pkg_postinst portion of the ebuild.
> 
> Great!
> 
> > If you have installed app-portage/elogv issue "elogv" and find the desired
> > package.
> 
> Thanks, I'll check it!
> 
> > Two quick ways off the top of my head after the first cup of coffee. ;)
> 
> The magic is coming from coffee, I know! :)

Since reading the ebuild is not the _friendly_ way to get this information,
let me help you install the software to make this easy...

emerge -ajv app-portage/elogv (ncurses, which is text with colors)
or
emerge -ajv app-portage/elogviewer (GTK+ based utility, perhaps with GUI)

Now add these lines to /etc/portage/make.conf (/etc/make.conf on old systems)

PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error info log qa"

Then create this directory as root with this command:

mkdir -p /var/log/portage/elog

Then as root add your normal user to the portage group with this command:

gpasswd -a <username> portage (replace <username> with your normal user's name
and do not use the < >

Then issue:

newgrp

as that user or logout of Linux and log back in (you do _not_ need to reboot).

Then you can issue "elogv" or start elogviewer from the desktop entry and read
the logs of your files.

Hope this helps.

Happy Gentooing!

Bruce
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