emerge history

jmarcus · Apprentice Joined: 12 Jun 2004 Posts: 197

What command can I use to see the history of my emerge's? I think I updated sshd a few weeks ago and it might have broken an eclipse instance.

thanks,
James

codergeek42 · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:48 pm Post subject:

The log file is in /var/log/emerge.log by default. You can use a program such as genlop to parse it and display it in a nice colored output format:

jmarcus · Apprentice Joined: 12 Jun 2004 Posts: 197

Thanks!

neozenkai · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 14

I'm not sure if this is the right place, but it deals with installation, and I'm sorry if this is a repeat, I just don't know what exactly to search for. Anyways, I was wondering if there is a way to create a list of packages installed from a certain point in time that will allow you to easily go back and start over. For example, I was planning on installing Compiz, but I've had some problems in the past, so if it didn't work, I wanted to be able to remove everything and start over again with a basic GNOME install. Is there an automated way to do this, or will I just have to echo each "emerge --pretend blahblah" to a log file?

Thanks for any and all help!

phajdan.jr · Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 4:30 pm Post subject:

See /var/log/emerge.log, genlop, qlop...

nixnut · Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 5:01 pm Post subject:

merged above two posts here.
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hielvc · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 7:56 am Post subject:

See this thread for a script that will accept a date an list everything built from that point on. deleted /var/db/pkg [solved]
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