On Mon, September 12, 2005 10:24 pm, Frank Schafer said: > 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 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
perhaps you ought to learn how to use grep or find. People write tools for you, you are free to use them or futz around doing your own thing. The system works well for many people. But this is linux, change portage on your system to log differently and then submit a patch to bugzilla. Or just submit the idea to bugzilla. Don't forget to include a way to fix the 3 or more years of log files in /var/log/portage. Don't forget to make out a really good justification because otherwise the devs will think you are just a moaner. > > >> 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. > what the hell are you trying to find? If it is the log for package foo, simply find the file with "foo" in the name in /var/log/portage. >> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
