On Dec 23, 2011 11:41 PM, "James" <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> writes:
>
> > > > The messages which stream by during an emerge, in particular the
> > > > warnings etc. which are repeated at the end of a single emerge
> > > > operation.  They're accumulated in a log file somewhere, aren't they?
>
> > > /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log
>
> If you want a finer granularity of control, just set it up
> in /etc/make.conf
>
> Here's an example I use on one system:
>
> ## LOGGING Control of Ebuilds
> PORT_LOGDIR="/var/log/elog/"
> PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="info log error"
> PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"
>
> Lots of ways to customize the logging of what you emerge.
> hth,
> James
>
>

... and emerge elogv. Makes reading portage info/warns/errors easier thanks to its colorful ncurses interface :-)

Rgds,