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 miss

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 o

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 r

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

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 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 world in ca

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 wrote: > Bryan Gardiner wrote: > > On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:06:44 -0500 > > Dale 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

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 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 l

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 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 compiling: $ emerge -p

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: /hom

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

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

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 gr

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

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

2012-06-01 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 w

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

2012-06-01 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

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

2012-06-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jun 2, 2012 1:13 PM, "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 i

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

2012-06-01 Thread Andrew Lowe
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 onl