Bug 6084 – History function

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Ole Tange 2002-08-06 07:24:49 UTC]

I have asked on IRC and nobody seemed to know if emerge had a history.

If not then it would be nice to have a logfile that told:

* What was installed (uninstalled)
* Versions of (un)installed stuff
* When it was (un)installed

This is tremendously usefull for tracking down bugs that you know was not on you
system 14 days ago but that seems to be there now.

In principle it could just start out as:

date >>/var/log/emerge-history
echo $* >>/var/log/emerge-history

But a more sofisticated logging would ofcourse be better.

[Comment 1 Ole Tange 2002-08-06 08:00:15 UTC]

Another use for this is a question I just saw on IRC:

How long time does it take to compile gcc?

This could be answered by reading the logfiles (at least I could tell how long
it took on my machine).

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2002-08-06 08:05:06 UTC]

im pretty sure a history function doesnt exist, and as for the 2nd comment, its 
already been filed as another bug ;)

[Comment 3 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-09-03 15:46:34 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 991 ***