On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:25 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Mon, September 12, 2005 8:02 pm, Frank Schafer said: > > Hi list, > > > > I'm just wondering about the manner portage manages it log files. > > > > It's a very good idea to have 2 logs for each package (one with each end > > every line of the make output and one with the messages of the package > > for the installer). > > > > I'm wondering why there are these 4 digit numbers in front of the name > > of each log file. This makes it hard to find the log for a single > > package by name. > > > > it keeps them in time order
My idea is that the time is in order with ``ls -tr'' and the alphabet is in order with ``ls''. > > try find or ls|grep > That's fine if I know the exact package name and spelling. Reading an ordered list makes this unnecessary. > > What about changing the logfile names to: > > package-version.log > > package-version.msg? > > > > A simple ``ls'' then will show the logs in alphabetical order making it > > easier to find a single one. > > A ``ls -tr'' will show the logs in chronological order. To see in which > > order the packages were built, rebuilt ..., how long did it take to > > build a package and so on. > > > > What you about this? > > > > Regards > > Frank > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
