On Friday 04 September 2009 15:09:08 Cinder Cinder wrote:
>    Sorry Joost, but when I redirct the output of emerge to a file with >
> 
> Code:
> # emerge -va --update --deep world > emerge-va-update-deep-world
> 
> ... only two lines are written
> 
> Code:
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies ... done!
> 
> I tried putting this line in in /etc/make.conf and ran emerge again
> 
> Code: /etc/make.conf
> PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage
> 
> But I can't find anything that looks relevant in /var/log/portage.
> How do I get all the other messages out so you can see them?

Copy paste from the screen into a mail

or try with -pv instead of -av.
-a waits for user input and can screw around with STDOUT

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