Bug 21392 – option to email special messages displayed when builds emerge

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Alistair McDonald 2003-05-21 03:17:08 UTC]

sometimes, an ebuild will display a special message, like "to complete this 
installation, you will need to run this command". I've also seen (and heard) 
machines beeping during an ebuild, to attract the attention of the user.

A lot of my ebuilds are unattended, and I fail to check my logs for these 
messages. I think that having these special messages emailed to an administator 
would be a very useful feature.

The email address would be in make.conf or similar. Only important messages 
would be emailed, for example the one I missed when I emerged mod_php and it 
failed to work, or the ones that I've heard beeping.

Whaddaya think? 

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-06-03 07:31:48 UTC]

used in debian (email)

watch also bug #11359

[Comment 2 Scott Taylor (RETIRED) 2003-09-30 14:20:08 UTC]

email might be nice. but at least log these messages somewhere. the unmerge
following an update comes so fast i often mias these messages even when i
know to look for them, and i dont know how many i've never seen. As these
can be important to execute for security or consistency, i don't want to
miss these. Perhaps buffer them and spit them out at the end of an emerge
session as well. The requests to run revdep-rebuild (from perl updates, and
the latest openssh) are ones that i've either re-emerged a package or dived
into the ebuild file to retrieve. I'd even be content with increasing the
emerge logging level so that every highlighted message got dumped to the
emerge.log

[Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2004-08-03 12:38:32 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11359 ***