Bug 249690

Summary:	[saves one log per package in $PORT_LOGDIR/elog] isn't correct
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	Steffen 'j0inty' Stollfuß <j0inty>
Component:	Other documents	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	trivial	CC:	dev-portage
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/de/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=1#doc_chap4
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Steffen 'j0inty' Stollfuß 2008-12-03 10:29:27 UTC

Hi,

today I started the elog process for my portage and found this little error in the docs.

Portage will NOT store the logfile in PORT_LOGDIR/elog it will store it in PORT_LOGDIR.

I'm using portage2.2-rc16 and I don't know does the older version of portage do it.

reagards
j0inty 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-03 10:46:20 UTC

We document stable Portage behavior, not ~arch. If this is still the case when Portage-2.2 goes stable, we'll take another look at the handbook.

Comment 2 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-03 19:13:17 UTC

Except that 2.1.6 is to get stable "soon"...

Portage guys, could you please verify the original report?

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2008-12-03 19:48:17 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Portage will NOT store the logfile in PORT_LOGDIR/elog it will store it in
> PORT_LOGDIR.

Well, there are are to kinds of logs. The complete build logs are saved directly in $PORT_LOGDIR. The logs that contain elog messages alone are saved in $PORT_LOGDIR/elog. I think that you just haven't the difference between the two types of logs. Can you confirm?

Comment 4 Steffen 'j0inty' Stollfuß 2008-12-04 10:36:01 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Portage will NOT store the logfile in PORT_LOGDIR/elog it will store it in
> > PORT_LOGDIR.
> 
> Well, there are are to kinds of logs. The complete build logs are saved
> directly in $PORT_LOGDIR. The logs that contain elog messages alone are saved
> in $PORT_LOGDIR/elog. I think that you just haven't the difference between the
> two types of logs. Can you confirm?
> 

Yes you are right. I had a look on it and saw that the logs will store directly to PORT_LOGDIR and the elog message under PORT_LOGDIR.

Comment 5 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-26 08:33:25 UTC

Not a bug, then. The make.conf.example that ships with Portage-2.1.6 confirms that the handbook is still correct, namely:

If you have specified PORT_LOGDIR in make.conf, then elog saves messages to $PORT_LOGDIR/elog. If you have not set PORT_LOGDIR, then elog will save messages to /var/log/portage/elog. If you set PORT_LOGDIR to /random/logation, then elog will save to /random/location/elog.

Either way, there will still be a separate elog directory that messages are saved to.