On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:08:39 +0800 Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I've just kicked off an "emerge -NuD world" and will now head > out for a while. My emerge has to do, amongst others, gcc, > libreoffice, Firefox & Thunderbird. Now when I get back I'll want to > know where the emerge is up to so, in my ignorance of portage/emerge > in great depth and with only compiler output spewing up the screen, > I'll fire up another terminal, and now don't laugh, I'll do "emerge > --pretend -NuD world". That will tell me what's currently being > compiled as it will be the top thingy on the list. There has to be a > better way.... > > Is there a way so that the terminal that the emerge is > happening in can display additional info? At the moment, I get: > > /home/agl: emerge > > can I get, say: > > /home/agl: emerge www-client/firefox > > by setting some config variable? Failing that is there a log file > that lists just what's been emerged, not a whole lot of "checking > this, checking that, compiling this file, linking that library, > whoops, error here..." sort of thing. > > Any thoughts, greatly appreciated, > > Andrew
I use "emerge -auDtqv world" to update. The "uD" identifies all the updates (from world) and the packages used in lower levels. The "t" uses indented names to show levels of dependency. Lastly "qv" suppresses (from my console) all the configuration and build details while that information is written to /var/lib/portage. In short, I can see what's being emerged without being overwhelmed by details. HTH, David
