Re: [gentoo-user] Stopping some emerges from being recorded in the logs.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I do my updates in a chroot.  When it is done in the chroot, I copy the
> packages over to my main OS and install with -k and it keeps my running
> OS more stable.  There is one problem tho.  When I do that, the emerge
> times for installing the packages with -k, which is a LOT faster, are
> also recorded in the emerge.log file.  When I use genlop -c to see how
> much longer a compile is going to take, it makes the results of genlop
> way off.  A package that may take a hour to compile can install as a
> binary in a couple minutes.  Poor genlop gets confused.  Did the emerge
> take a couple minutes or a hour? 
>
> Is there a way that I can stop emerge from logging the package installs
> with -k?  Some little known option? 
>
> I also thought about copying the emerge.log file over from the chroot
> after I complete the -k update on my main install.  Not logging the -k
> update would be the same result.  Thing is, I forget to do it.  It would
> be nice if I could use a emerge option but does anyone see a problem
> with this way? 
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-) 
>
> P. S.  Got my tractor back together and even bladed a driveway this
> morning.  It's doing a LOT better but I want to rebuild the other side
> pretty soon.  No leaks and no parts left over. 
>


The only way I've come up with to work around this, copy the emerge log
file over after I do my emerge -k on my main OS, if I don't forget.  I
wish I could just tell emerge not to log emerge -k at all. 

Dale

:-)  :-)