Frequently emerge will output a message advising some further action on the part of the user. (they are typically prefixed by green or yellow asterisks) Unfortunately, these messages scroll much too fast and are not stored in any obvious place (such as /var/log/emerge.log). For example, when updating SQL today, I noted there was one of these messages but by the time I reached over and paused the merge process, the message had already scrolled out of the back buffer. A solution must be found that allows the user to view these messages at his leasure without having to sit there watching the scroll and then recall perfectly something that was only displayed for a fraction of a second! =\ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: merge any ebuild that contains a user advisory message and enough files as to fill up the scroll-back buffer. Actual Results: ... Expected Results: Possible actions: 1. Cache all advisory messages and display them as emerge exits such that even if there were many of them, it would be unlikley that they would fill an entire X-term scroll-back buffer. 2. output such messages to some obvious location such as /var/log/emerge.log or /var/log/emerge.msgs leenooks ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre11 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-mp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-mp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 16bit 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aalib acl acpi alsa apm asm audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb doc dts dvd eds emboss encode erandom esd exif expat ext-zlib f77 fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gcc-libffi gcj gd gdbm ggi gif glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk2 guile high-ints idn imagemagick imlib insecure-drivers ipv6 ithreads j2ee java javadoc jpeg junit kde lcms libg++ libwww lua mad mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls no-old-linux noflagstrip nowin nptl nptlonly ode ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix python qt quicktime readline reiserfs sdl slang smp spell sse ssl stencil-buffer svga tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userlocales vcd vorbis xine xinerama xml2 xv xvmc zlib video_cards_rage128 video_cards_mach64 video_cards_radeon userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY leenooks ~ #
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11359 ***
