1 .TH elogviewer 1 "October 07, 2006" "elogviewer -- An interface to Portage's ELOG system"
4 elogviewer \-\- a program to easily manage elog files created by Portage during emerge
7 This manual page explains the
9 program. This program lists all elogs created during emerges of
10 packages from Portage, the package manager of Gentoo Linux. So all
11 warnings or informational messages generated during an update can be
12 reviewed at one glance.
16 To generate elogs, the user needs to tell Portage to activate the
17 saving features for the ELOG facilities in his /etc/make.conf file via
21 PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"
24 and choose at least one out of
27 PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn info error log"
30 Further prerequisite is the elog directory (in most cases
31 /var/log/portage/elog/, see variable PORT_LOGDIR), which may need to
32 be created and belong to the portage group. If the user wants to start
33 the program as non-root, he needs to add himself to portage group.
34 For more information on the ELOG system, see /etc/make.conf.example.
36 The program allows to select the ebuild functions in which to look for
37 messages, so unpack messages about patching can be disabled while
38 still having warnings from the post installation function without
39 informational messages. elogs can be deleted individually or all in
43 For bugs in this man page contact <gentoo@faulhammer.org> and for problems with the program the original author Mathias Laurin <synss@cashette.com>.
45 There are a few the author will address when time permits. But elogviewer does what it was created for.
47 Prints an error message after the last elog has been deleted.
49 Error messages should be routed to the error dev on not the console.
53 The filter is getting inconvenient.
63 on the command line overwrites the defaults.
66 /etc/make.conf.example
69 Mathias Laurin <synss@cashette.com> for the program, Christian
70 Faulhammer <gentoo@faulhammer.org> for this man page