On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:25:51 -0700 Joe Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bottom line here is that there is extremely valuable and critical info > in our emerge output. In a way, these messages are like > Gentoo-specific READMEs (or release notes and/or install > instructions). However, it is not saved for a user to use as a > resource later (well, except that it is partially saved in the master > emerge.log, but that's not quite useful enough). There is no > "official" place to go to look for Gentoo > instructions; /usr/share/doc is one logical place, but it only > contains files actually installed, not the notes output by emerge > (and these are usually upstream-supplied, not Gentoo). > > I propose that, upon merging a package, we save the emerge messages in > either: 1) a package-specific file that resides somewhere "official" > or > 2) in the portage DB, so that the messages can be re-read via a > portage utility. In the latter case, either a new option to "equery" > or a new "q" command (e.g. "equery readme <pkg>" or "qreadme <pkg>" > could retrieve the text). By default, messages generated by elog, ewarn and eerror are recorded in /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log (emerge.log is just a transaction log, so best to ignore it here). einfo isn't recorded on purpose as it isn't intended for important information (that's the purpose of elog). There are some tools available to simplify reading these messages, and there several additional/alternative delivery modules available (by mail, IM or in package specific files), customizable via POTAGE_ELOG_* variables. Don't know if you just haven't been aware of this, or if you're asking for something completely different. Marius
