and if you dont have it set, emerge just logs basic info about each emerge and messages to /var/log/emerge.log
BillK On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 06:05, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > Hi! > > On Friday 19 September 2003 22:03, Peter McCracken wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I do an emerge that upgrades multiple packages, I usually miss the > > messages that are output at the end of the builds. Often, these are > > pretty important. I recall hearing somewhere that these messages are > > logged; can anyone tell me where? > > If you have PORT_LOGDIR set in /etc/make.conf then the output of emerge > including all messages is getting logged for every package. > > Since a lot of output is generated for big packages like glibc (15MB), > openoffice (18MB), etc. it makes sense to compress the logs and delete them > after, say, a month (from cron). After bzipping the logs the size of the > logdir reduced from 90MB to only 5MB. > > > Hope that helps. > > Cheers, > Renat > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
