Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 13:55 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: So genlop isn't a reason to not change the names of the log files, is it? Point taken (in fact i didn't know genlop got its stats from /var/log/emerge.log, i thought it got them from /var/log/portage/* I suggest that you submit a bug at

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:20:30 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: It does provide some useful functionality IMHO, (and obviously in the NSHO of the designer of the logging system.) I quite _like_ to see when i first installed mplayer, what versions i had installed at certain times, how long it will take

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-13 Thread Frank Schafer
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:20 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:38:41 +0200 Frank Schafer wrote: There shouldn't be more logs than we have actually packages installed. The log for the installation of the version of (say) python I had installed 3 years ago isn't worth anything.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:59:53 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: O.K. if you want to se all of this fo years, maybe you're glad enough to own a n at least some TB disk array. ;) After emerging of a minimal system (91 packages during semrge system) the content of /var/log/portage takes 250MB. Which

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-13 Thread Frank Schafer
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 12:31 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:59:53 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: O.K. if you want to se all of this fo years, maybe you're glad enough to own a n at least some TB disk array. ;) After emerging of a minimal system (91 packages during semrge

RE: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 16:18 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: -Original Message- From: Frank Schafer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm wondering why there are these 4 digit numbers in front of the name of each log file. This makes it hard to find the log for a single package by name. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:02:21 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: I'm wondering why there are these 4 digit numbers in front of the name of each log file. This makes it hard to find the log for a single package by name. Maybe some internal feature of portage? What about changing the logfile names

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Nagatoro
Neil Bothwick wrote: I like the idea of giving the two logs different names, it would make parsing this information with a script much easier. You'd still need some sort of unique identifier in the names, because you could merge the same package version more than once. But naming the files .log

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 09:37 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:02:21 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: I'm wondering why there are these 4 digit numbers in front of the name of each log file. This makes it hard to find the log for a single package by name. Maybe some internal

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, September 12, 2005 8:02 pm, Frank Schafer said: Hi list, I'm just wondering about the manner portage manages it log files. It's a very good idea to have 2 logs for each package (one with each end every line of the make output and one with the messages of the package for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:25 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, September 12, 2005 8:02 pm, Frank Schafer said: Hi list, I'm just wondering about the manner portage manages it log files. It's a very good idea to have 2 logs for each package (one with each end every line of the make output

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, September 12, 2005 9:35 pm, Frank Schafer said: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:25 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, September 12, 2005 8:02 pm, Frank Schafer said: I'm wondering why there are these 4 digit numbers in front of the name of each log file. This makes it hard to find the log for

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:55 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, September 12, 2005 9:35 pm, Frank Schafer said: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:25 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, September 12, 2005 8:02 pm, Frank Schafer said: I'm wondering why there are these 4 digit numbers in front of the name

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Frank Schafer
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 22:59 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, September 12, 2005 10:24 pm, Frank Schafer said: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:55 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, September 12, 2005 9:35 pm, Frank Schafer said: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:25 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, September

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
What about changing the logfile names to: package-version.log package-version.msg? Because multiple installs of the same version would overwrite the log. The added prefix is, I believe, either some sort of order number or a time-based reference, not sure which. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:38:41 +0200 Frank Schafer wrote: There shouldn't be more logs than we have actually packages installed. The log for the installation of the version of (say) python I had installed 3 years ago isn't worth anything. (Me to say) A successful installation of a new version