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PostPosted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 8:15 pm    Post subject: Log of emerge readable output produced somewhere? Reply with quote

Is there a log being generated of my emerges' readable output that I can archive for later learning? I switched everything to gentoo recently and have a lot to learn about the system as I configure it.

I'm up to my ears in ebuilds of all the familiar packages I used under Redhat. I saw something flash by about having the gif use flag set, so libungif would assume I had libgif emerged and use that.

I'd like to have a searcheable archive of those kinds of messages. The compiler command output, not so much. Hopefully I'm not too late to start this archive if it was being generated all along. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks.

Mod edit: Made this thread sticky instead of this merged one. --kallamej
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 9:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

there is /var/log/emerge.log, but it's fairly basic.

there are patches in bugzilla (Mod edit: bug 11359 --kallamej) to have the einfo and co. logged (that are the green messages you probably are interested in), but afaik it has not been integrated into portage yet. saving all the compiler output is as useless as space consuming, so piping in a file is no real option.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 6:30 pm    Post subject: Re: Log of emerge readable output produced somewhere? Reply with quote

jeffk wrote:
Is there a log being generated of my emerges' readable output that I can archive for later learning? I switched everything to gentoo recently and have a lot to learn about the system as I configure it.


You must activate the logging-feature of emerge by setting the portage log directory in /etc/make.conf:

Code:

# PORT_LOGDIR is the location where portage will store all the logs it
#     creates from each individual merge. They are stored as YYMMDD-$PF.log
#     in the directory specified. This is disabled until you enable it by
#     providing a directory. Permissions will be modified as needed IF the
#     directory exists, otherwise logging will be disabled.
PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage


jeffk wrote:

I'd like to have a searcheable archive of those kinds of messages. The compiler command output, not so much. Hopefully I'm not too late to start this archive if it was being generated all along. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks.


You can then parse the messages in /var/log/portage with the bash utility portlog-info.

(ps: make it executable with "chmod +x portlog-info" and start it with "./portlog-info". You can get a list of available options with "./portlog-info --help")

Here you can find a threat, which lists all the utilities available for portage.
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PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2005 3:17 pm    Post subject: portage log tools - enotice and portlog-info Reply with quote

Several tools have arisen that allow one to log/read the messages spurted out by portage.

I have tried both enotice and portlog-info and find enotice to be the better of the two, however it seems to have broken with the latest version of portage (2.0.51.21). I am wondering what tools other people use and which they find the best?

Have you written one of your own that deserves to see some daylight?

Also if anyone has a fix to solve enoitce's sandbox errors please post ;)


-curtis119, made sticky and changed title to be more descriptive.
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PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2005 3:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like the logging support in portage-2.1 :wink:
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PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2005 5:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

LOL, so logging made it into portage now?

/me is still running 2.0.x, what tool(s) does 2.1.x use?
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PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2005 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mallchin wrote:
LOL, so logging made it into portage now?

/me is still running 2.0.x, what tool(s) does 2.1.x use?


Like about 99.999% of all gentoo users. What do you mean with "what tools"?
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PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I meant what tools does 2.1.x have to read notices as replacements for enotice and portlog-info...

Did one of the two make it into portage or does it have a new tool to do this?
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PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2005 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Several options for that:
a) get the messages via mail
b) log them via syslog
c) stored in a folder
d) run a custom command to process them
e) any other way people are going to write a module for

No tool required.
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PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2005 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool. Sounds like they have it covered.

Can't wait. Have to make do with portlog-info until then.
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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2005 11:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi all,

I tried both PORT_LOGDIR and enotice and have to admit that I find enotice *extremely* useful ... and as already pointed out in another (duplicate) thread I wonder why enotice can't be implemented in portage since it is so simple & easy to do?

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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2005 12:09 pm    Post subject: I agree. Reply with quote

Enotice should be on the top of the list of features that must be integrated into portage.
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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 2:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Duplicate of this thread:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-333009.html

I am consolidating and that thread is the best of the bunch.
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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 2:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I moved a ton of other threads that were duplicates of this one. I'm making this one sticky.
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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 9:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Re-consolidating the einfo threads as portage-2.1 is not yet available and this one contains relevant links. Merged https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2377951.html#2377951 here. Sorry for the interleaving of some of the posts.
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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 10:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

enotice is amazing! I actually feel like the pc has power now. It can emerge stuff and tell me afterwards in plain english what I, the slave, must do! I also used portlog-info first to go through all the logs before I used enotice.

gentooexperimental has some great tools which would be a great asset to portage. I have just returned to Gentoo after 3 months of distro-hopping (mostly used Arch Linux) and I am here to stay. The logs and emerge info were always my biggest gripes with Gentoo and now they are sorted!

Thanks!
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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 4:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm curious, is enotice not yet included in portage, gentoolkit or some other package? I'd like to try it, but have only found this reference: http://gentooexperimental.org/script/repo/show/14

Perhaps there should be an ebuild for it?
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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 5:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There won't be an ebuild for it (unless someone outside {tools,dev}-portage wants to deal with it and the potential issues it will create).
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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

this is kind of weird.

why would logging be so difficult to figure out and not availiable as an ebuild?

is there a howto somewere that I missed?
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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 5:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, it's not difficult at all. The reason why I'm not going to make a package for enotice is because it's (ab)using an undocumented portage feature to override internal functions, also it won't work anymore with portage-2.1 and has a (very remote) possibility to break profiles. In short: I can't support it even if I wanted, nor could any other portage developer.
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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 6:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

aww ok that makes sense.

I guess I will wate till things get integrated into portage before I mess with logging.
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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 10:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know this is going to sound like I should just wait, but I'm curious as to when portage-2.1 "might" be out with logging features? I've been away from Gentoo for a few months so I'm a bit rusty with news...

I can wait for it! Just curious
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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 10:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

enotice seems broken for latest the portage, I can see it being a cat-and-mouse game...

portlog-info uses portage's built in logging features, probably less likely tro break...
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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 10:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can see why portlog-info is hard (or damn near impossible!) to break, as it does a simple thing: looks at portage's OWN logs and filters out certain key words/phrases.

However with enotice, how could it break portage or anything for that matter? I thought that it did a similar thing to portlog-info, but rather than looking at the logs, it looks at the direct output and juts makes easily-readable files. It can't actually delete anything right?
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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kcy29581 wrote:
I can see why portlog-info is hard (or damn near impossible!) to break, as it does a simple thing: looks at portage's OWN logs and filters out certain key words/phrases.

However with enotice, how could it break portage or anything for that matter? I thought that it did a similar thing to portlog-info, but rather than looking at the logs, it looks at the direct output and juts makes easily-readable files. It can't actually delete anything right?


The point is that it's overriding internal functions (actually inherited from baselayout atm) and 2.1 a) doesn't allow that anymore and b) changes those functions for it's own logging. So it won't delete anything, but it won't work anymore and might cause some random problems.
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