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Elogv

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elogv is a curses-based tool that parses the contents of elogs created by Portage.

Installation

Emerge

Install elogv:

root #emerge --ask app-portage/elogv

Configuration

To use elogv, the Portage elog system needs to be configured in /etc/portage/make.conf with the following addition:

# Logging
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log"
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"

For additional variable definitions see the /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example file.

Note
If the PORT_LOGDIR variable is unset in /etc/portage/make.conf, logs will be saved to /var/log/portage/elog by default.

Usage

Invocation

To use elogv, type in a console:

user $elogv --help

See also

  • egencache — a tool that rebuilds metadata information for the Portage tree