Bug 320905 – sys-apps/portage: show a warning (similar to new news items one) when unread elog files are present in LOGDIR

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: CONFIRMED ---

[Description Pacho Ramos 2010-05-21 16:37:26 UTC]

Reading http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320511#c3 seems that some people don't read elog messages. In my case, I periodically check my /var/log/portage/elog/* for new elog messages and, then, I remove that files. 
Maybe emerge could enforce this behavior showing a message when files are present in LOGDIR (that message would also show LOGDIR location to let people find them easily)

Thanks a lot

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2010-05-22 02:22:16 UTC]

We might need a better way to "mark as read" than deleting the logs.

Also, the current default PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM setting in make.globals is "save_summary echo", so the only file that's created by default is summary.log. If we're going to create a "mark as read" system, then we can probably disable the "echo" module by default since that tends to flood the terminal and thus be ignored be the user.

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2010-05-22 07:59:29 UTC]

It would be much better of course, I simply wanted to "show the problem" and suggest the first proposition I thought about :-)