Log of emerge readable output produced somewhere?

nmbrthry · Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:03 pm Post subject:

synss and I have a PyGTK program for more easily reading the elog files produced by Portage. See this topic for more information.

XenoTerraCide · Veteran Joined: 18 Jan 2004 Posts: 1418 Location: MI, USA

is elog going to get a manpage? or become part of another one? I want to know exactly what the different levels are logging.
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XenoTerraCide · Veteran Joined: 18 Jan 2004 Posts: 1418 Location: MI, USA

how do you get it to log only the *green and *orange messages? I seem to be getting a lot of... things in the logs I don't want. like

XenoTerraCide · Veteran Joined: 18 Jan 2004 Posts: 1418 Location: MI, USA

can you limit or rotate the logs for elog? the only kind of documentation I find for it is make.conf.example and that's far from being very helpful.
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dalek · Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 6:41 am Post subject:

Aule · n00b Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 21

dalek · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:29 pm Post subject:

AndrewWilcox · n00b Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 6

I'm running Portage 2.1-r1, and following the instructions in /etc/make.conf.example I tried to set up emerge logging:

/etc/make.conf:

thoughtform · l33t Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 600

Andrew did you get an answer? I'm looking for this solution, too.
Thanks.

AndrewWilcox · n00b Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 6

Genone · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:46 pm Post subject:

If you don't want the full logs then don't set PORT_LOGDIR.
Anyway, the elog logfiles are in $PORT_LOGDIR/elog (/var/log/portage/elog if $PORT_LOGDIR is unset or empty)

stevit · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 31

I wrote a smal script for the elog custom command.
In my opinion those path applying infos are quite uninteresting, etc
but there is no way to deaktivate them and still get those infos what
you most likely shoukd do after merging your pakets.
So.... it's nothing big, some colours, filtering, piping, etc.
but the escaping of special chars took some time...
so perhaps someone finds it useful and don't have to build something like that on his own.

smals and simple emerge log summery on your ttys:

jorgepeixoto

My /var/log/portage is currently 253 MB. Is it ok/safe for me to delete some files in it (there are a couple of files that are really large) ?

stevit · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 31

I delete the content of my /var/log/portage regulary.
So far nothing bad happend.

Perhaps try to avoid removing directories for e.g. /var/log/portage/elog or /var/log/portage itself.
All files within should be quite compensable (as long as there is no current emerge running).
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kallamej · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:36 am Post subject:

The full build logs are typically useful only when you want to debug a build afterwards, for instance if a build error is no longer in your scroll buffer.
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juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 959 Location: we the north

i made a post and it was locked saying that it was answered in this thread. well, i can't see the answer anywhere, so i will ask it again.

sometime when a package is emerged there is a little warning at the end, saying something like "run env-update". i think this information is stored in the ebuild as an "einfo".

is there a way to view this info with a command? like

<command> ebuild

and it pops out all the einfos?

kallamej · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject:

The suggestion to run etc-update is displayed after every emerge if there are files under config protection to update. It has nothing to do with einfo. The e{info,warn,error,log} messages you see while emerging is often USE flag dependant and watching them all for an ebuild is not always relevant. Anyway,

juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 959 Location: we the north

i don't really want to see it after an emerge, i want to see it whenever i feel like it.

i thought that was maybe a command. i guess i will use grep.

rwf · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 234 Location: mi.us

File names changed in /var/log/portage (PORT_LOGDIR)?

A snippet from my /var/log/portage directory (emacs dired)

Genone · Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:48 am Post subject:

You can still sort the files by date, just use the mtime as sort key (with ls -t for example).

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ruivilela · Last edited by ruivilela on Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:21 am; edited 1 time in total

Is it currently possible to see emerge messages after an emerge world. I don't find much info on how to do this, but i know that this is/was planned.

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:08 am Post subject:

Add "PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage" to /etc/make.conf and all emerge output will be saved in the directory specified. You will need to clear it out manually on occasion.

Edit: That will save *all* output, including the compile. Read the portage man page and /etc/make.conf.example for information on how to only save the info and warning messages.
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ruivilela · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:20 am Post subject:

Thanks for tip. This will save me lot of time with post-install problems.

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:23 am Post subject:

If you decide to save all output, you might search the forums for a tool called, portlog-info. It is just a shell script that scans through all the files in PORT_LOGDIR and displays the einfo and ewarn messages.

See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-131795-highlight-portloginfo.html for more information on this topic.
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