On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:55 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Mon, September 12, 2005 9:35 pm, Frank Schafer said: > > On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:25 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > >> On Mon, September 12, 2005 8:02 pm, Frank Schafer said: > >> > 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''. > > > > this is not the forum for seeking to change the way gentoo works, the devs > don't really inhabit this list. Try gentoo-dev :-) >
thanks :) > >> > >> 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? > >> > > > I have emerged (for example) the same version of mplayer with different > use flags until I got it how I wanted it, your system does not allow for > this. > See another of my posts in this thread. > >> > 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. > >> > > > > genlop -t tells you how long the ebuild took. as in "genlop -t mplayer" > I decline to install a bunch of gen* tools which simply duplicate the functionality of UNIX commands (like ls in this case) ;p > Just think about this: every other log file in the system is ordered by > date & time :-) Right in the looking in the syslog I'm seeng events in the order they occured in one file. Here we have a couple of logs which I'd like to find quickly by name/time (due to the question I ask and UNIX has a tool for this already) which content is again chronological. > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
