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PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just tryed reemerging something and later parsed the file. :)

Added solved. Thanks
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Merged 5 previous posts here.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I only want to see the * BLA BLA and * BLA BLA informations of an ebuild, having it installed or not. How to do that?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:43 pm    Post subject: human readable format of TIME in emerge.log Reply with quote

hi,
I would like to force portage to use any human readable format for DATE and TIME . Any idea?

for example anything like this:
Code:
2006/11/24 14:40:38  >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-ftp/ftp-0.17-r6 to /
2006/11/24 14:41:16  *** exiting successfully.

instead of
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1164288247:  >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-ftp/ftp-0.17-r6 to /
1164288271:  *** exiting successfully.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe this topic is of use: nice trick: formatting the time code in emerge.log.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 1:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why aint elog save enabled by default in the make config and when an emerge is finnished just automatically echo the saved contents to the user? Isn't this what most users want? To actually see the important warnings/info for each package without having to watch the compile. To me it seems as all the required code for doing this is in place allready. The additions to the emerge script shouldn't be that overwhelming, to my understanding.

edit: I'm writing this because I in my last emerge -uD world by pure luck managed to catch an einfo message from GTK telling me to rebuild certain packages because they would break else. Why in the name of $DEITY is so important information allowed to just scroll by in useless compile output? For the record this wouldn't have been the first time my gentoo system got b0rken by an -uD world, and yes I _ALLWAYS_ run etc-update after my updates, regardless of if I was told or not.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lenkki wrote:
Why aint elog save enabled by default in the make config and when an emerge is finnished just automatically echo the saved contents to the user? Isn't this what most users want? To actually see the important warnings/info for each package without having to watch the compile. To me it seems as all the required code for doing this is in place allready. The additions to the emerge script shouldn't be that overwhelming, to my understanding.


Agreed.

Crono81 wrote:
I only want to see the * BLA BLA and * BLA BLA informations of an ebuild, having it installed or not. How to do that?


I also would like to know how to do precisely this.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:20 am    Post subject: This is what I have found. Reply with quote

It looks like this is now in portage.

You just need to add some variables to your make.conf
Code:

# This sets where to log
PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage
# This sets what to log
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log info"
# And this is how to do it
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"

You may need to create the directories
Code:

mkdir /var/log/portage
mkdir /var/log/portage/elog


GUIs for viewing the "elogs" are available in portage: http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=elogs
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 12:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What exactly do the various elog classes mean? The sample conf and documentation are vague.

I presume that info, warn and error record the respective einfo/ewarn/eerror messages to the individual elogs. What does log do?
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:33 pm    Post subject: Invisible linux-headers mystery. Reply with quote

Having emerged linux-headers, I was fortunate to see a notice's recommending a rebuild of glibc appear on the screen. Checking elogv and kelogviewer, though, I see no mention at all of linux-headers, let alone its messages. These two programs both show all of the other contemporaneous emerges, just not linux-headers.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nevermind my question two posts above -- it's in the devmanual.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Several people seem to be looking for a way to keep /var/log/portdir clean.
Just wanted to point out that the tmpwatch serves this purpose well and is very simple to configure.
Code:
# emerge tmpwatch

It installs the 15 KB binary /usr/sbin/tmpwatch, and it creates a little bourne script in /etc/cron.daily. There is no configuration file.

Add this line to the variables section near the top. You could manually assign PORT_LOGDIR (or just type /var/log/portage directly in the rule), but this will query portage to dynamically determine the correct location of its log directory so the script will still function if you change the log location:
Code:
PORT_LOGDIR="$(portageq envvar PORT_LOGDIR)"

Then down below, add a rule something like this to clean the portage log directory (delete the files that have not been modified in >=168 hours):
Code:
${TMPWATCH} --mtime 168 $PORT_LOGDIR

Alternative: If you want, you can exclude your elog directory like so (instead of line above):
Code:
${TMPWATCH} --exclude $PORT_LOGDIR/elog --mtime 168 $PORT_LOGDIR

Option: If so, and you still want to clean elog but after a different time, you could then insert a second rule below the first to handle it:
Code:
${TMPWATCH} --mtime 720 $PORT_LOGDIR/elog
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Man that is nice! I'm adding this to my tips if that's ok BoneKracker?

Can this also be used to keep distfiles clean and is there more config? (I know, RTFM ;)
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Go for it. :)

Yeah, you'll be pleased to know it comes already configured to clean distfiles and the portage tempdir. I primarily use a monthly eclean for that, but have tmpwatch sweeping up any remaining cruft months later.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

BoneKracker wrote:
Yeah, you'll be pleased to know it comes already configured to clean distfiles and the portage tempdir. I primarily use a monthly eclean for that, but have tmpwatch sweeping up any remaining cruft months later.
Loverley!
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:37 pm    Post subject: Re: This is what I have found. Reply with quote

jphein wrote:
It looks like this is now in portage.

You just need to add some variables to your make.conf
Code:

# This sets where to log
PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage
# This sets what to log
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log info"
# And this is how to do it
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"

You may need to create the directories
Code:

mkdir /var/log/portage
mkdir /var/log/portage/elog


GUIs for viewing the "elogs" are available in portage: http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=elogs

Where would a user figure out they need to make an elog directory? I mean other than searching here? I happened to know that I could set the log directory to gain more information. And I did read the entry in make.conf.sample (or is it example?) that talks about needing to create the /var/log/portage directory for this to work. But I didn't see anything about needing to make an elog directory too. And without it I get a list of what compiled, but not the after ebuild instructions.

Thankfully I have a new target to search under for this info, but I want to echo the disbelief that I have to manually get the list of things that packages have told me I must do. Things that may totally hose my system if I don't do them before I reboot are lost unless I know the magic handshake(s). Not the best way to make a user friendly system.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:38 pm    Post subject: Re: This is what I have found. Reply with quote

OneOfMany wrote:
Where would a user figure out they need to make an elog directory? I mean other than searching here?

Well, you can put the log where you're up to, of course. Knowing the FHS and the ideas behind it helps a lot and is basic preconditioned Unix knowledge.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 12:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the idea - till now when I needed to log outputs I used emerge | tee emergelog but it was bad, because output was no longer colourful :-D
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PostPosted: Sun May 16, 2010 11:50 am    Post subject: Just a thought Reply with quote

Could a mod add something like the following to the first post of this thread?

Quote:

By default, emerge messages are logged here:
/var/log/portage/elog


I had to read 3 pages to find that.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 9:04 am    Post subject: about ebuilds messages logging Reply with quote

Hi,
how can I recover the messages displayed by portage after emerging some packages?

I found that you can control this with the PORT_LOGDIR variable, but shouldn't the most important messages be stored by default anywhere for future reference?

I'm sure this question has been asked and answered several times, but I'm not able to find it in the boards.

TIA
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 9:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Merged previous post.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 9:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

tomk wrote:
Merged previous post.

Thank you!

I need to improve my search skills...
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have defined
Code:
PORT_LOGDIR='var/log/portage/build'
in
Code:
/etc/portage/make.conf
which is where I get information captured on each build during an emerge.

However, I notice that I am no longer receiving the important summary information in
Code:
/var/log/portage/elog/summary.log
as a result. Is there anyway of getting this back whilst retaining the individual build logs?

thanks
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 11:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

app-portage/elogv CMDL-util supporting colors marking

From the doc in /usr/share/doc/elogv-0.7.6.6/README.xz # you might have a different extension than .xz or none at all
Code:
Elogv is a simple tool written in python that allow you to easy read
portage elog files. To launch it, type on a console:

$ elogv

Inside the program, you can use these keys:

 - Down arrow -> Scroll the list of files down by 1 unit
 - Up arrow -> opposite of Down arrow
 - Pag Down -> Scroll the list down by 10 unit
 - Pag Up -> opposite of Pag Down
 - End -> Go to the last file of the list
 - Home -> Go to the first file of the list
 - t -> order the list of files by date, most recent on top
 - a -> order the list of files alphabetically
 - r -> reverse the list of files
 - SpaceBar -> scroll the selected file
 - h or F1 -> show the help screen, press Page Up/Down to scroll up and down,
              h and F1 again to hide
 - d -> removes log files, usage is similar to vim "d" command, here are
        same examples:
                da -> removes all files
                de -> removes from selected item to the end of the list
            ds -> remove from selected item to the start of the list
            d1d or dd -> removes selected file only
                d4d -> removes 4 files starting from selected one
 - q -> quit


Note:

To use this software you need the portage elog system configured on your
/etc/portage/make.conf, this is a simply configuration:

---- /etc/portage/make.conf
# Logging
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log"
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"
----
As well you can search by pressing / (like in emacs).
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