[SlugLUG] Debian As A Server

[Erich Blume]

On 6/12/06 3:00 PM, "cerise at armory.com" <cerise at armory.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:23:38PM -0700, Rohan Sheth wrote:
>> This here appear thing sounds interesting.  I'll have to toy with it.
>> Watching shit scroll on my screen for a few hours while Gentoo plays
>> update is somewhat boring...
> 
> That and the lack of background fetching has been a bug with appear for
> a really, really, really long time.  Every version of portage has been
> supposed to fix it any day now.  Really.
> 
> It's all written in sh, so it's _really_ easy to toy with.  Though almost no
> one does.
>  

emerge -f <package> - it just fetches the files, nothing else.

>> Night emerge -uD world sounds good...but does it log the updates
>> somewhere?  I would probably want to know if something important was
>> updated (new kernel, new apache, new php, etc.)
> 
> It does keep logs in /var/log/appear (per package build and a more general one
> for each stage of the pipeline).  It doesn't log updates though.
> 
> That's OK.  In my scripts, I emerge -u -p -D world >>/root/logs/world.  8)
> 
> There is one other problem with it that was never really dealt with.  It
> doesn't handle compound arguments, but the extra 2 keystrokes are generally
> worth it to me.  8)

As per my other email, it does keep a log, in /var/log/emerge.log. Also, a
quick run of "slocate world" reveals the world file to be stored in
"/var/lib/portage/world".

And... It DOES accept compound arguments. I believe it takes them as if from
the Perl::GetOptLong module, but I'm not 100% on that. The only things that
can't be mixed are long and short arguments - IE while "-av" is fine,
"--askv" is not. You'd have to do "--ask -v" or "--ask --verbose", etc.

> 
> -Phil/CERisE
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