Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-05 Thread Bryan Gardiner
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:06:44 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I use the command: genlop -c That tells what is compiling and some general time info too. +1 for genlop. Also, if you're upgrading a number of large packages, it can help to have an estimate of how long you'll be

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-05 Thread Dale
Bryan Gardiner wrote: On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:06:44 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I use the command: genlop -c That tells what is compiling and some general time info too. +1 for genlop. Also, if you're upgrading a number of large packages, it can help to have an estimate of

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-05 Thread Kerwin Hui
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 06:43:30 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Bryan Gardiner wrote: On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:06:44 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I use the command: genlop -c That tells what is compiling and some general time info too. +1 for genlop. Also, if

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-05 Thread Bryan Gardiner
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 06:43:30 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: If it is updates, I do this: emerge --resume -p | genlop -p Fantastic, thanks, --resume has always seemed like black magic to me (to the point where I do big installs by editing /var/lib/portage/world and emerging

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 22:41:26 +0800, Kerwin Hui wrote: If it is updates, I do this: emerge --resume -p | genlop -p Any reason why genlop instead of qlop (app-portage/portage-utils)? Last time I looked, qlop did not provide any estimate of time remaining. -- Neil Bothwick Bug:

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 22:41:26 +0800, Kerwin Hui wrote: If it is updates, I do this: emerge --resume -p | genlop -p Any reason why genlop instead of qlop (app-portage/portage-utils)? Last time I looked, qlop did not provide any estimate of time remaining.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:54:44 -0500, Dale wrote: Last time I looked, qlop did not provide any estimate of time remaining. That will teach me to take a nap. That's why I use genlop too. I rarely use any of the q commands. It seems something is always missing for one reason or the other.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:54:44 -0500, Dale wrote: Last time I looked, qlop did not provide any estimate of time remaining. That will teach me to take a nap. That's why I use genlop too. I rarely use any of the q commands. It seems something is always missing for one

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-03 Thread YoYo Siska
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 02:44:31AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 02:08:39PM +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote 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:

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-03 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 3/06/2012 10:54 PM, YoYo Siska wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 02:44:31AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 02:08:39PM +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote Is there a way so that the terminal that the emerge is happening in can display additional info? At the moment, I get:

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-02 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jun 2, 2012 1:13 PM, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au 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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 02:08:39PM +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote 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 I use xterm under ICEWM

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-02 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02.06.2012 08:08, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-02 Thread Dale
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Andrew Lowe writes: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage telling me what it's doing

2012-06-02 Thread David Relson
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