This has been a issue for a long time and there is a bug in gentoo's list to do something about it. Your only option is to turn on portage logging and tail the end of all the logs you just did..
just depends on which idea you like better, yours or mine.. ;) > Hi all. > > Some newbie questions for you Gentooers: Are alerts logged > when emerging > packages? How can I view alerts after running emerge given that I > usually do my merging after booting into a bash console? > > I've tried changing the terminal settings in Gnome to 10MB in > order to > scroll up and view alerts, but don't like to run emerge while > Gnome is > running if not absolutely necessary. > > What I've been doing lately is merge from a bash console, > startup Gnome, > and view the Gentoo CVS from mozilla -- all of the alerts are > conveniently in CVS. But there has to be a better way to view > alerts on > multiple emerges. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
