-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02.06.2012 08:08, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, I've just kicked off an "emerge -NuD world" and will now > head out for a while. My emerge has to do, amongst others, gcc, > libreoffice, Firefox & Thunderbird. Now when I get back I'll want > to know where the emerge is up to so, in my ignorance of > portage/emerge in great depth and with only compiler output spewing > up the screen, I'll fire up another terminal, and now don't laugh, > I'll do "emerge --pretend -NuD world". That will tell me what's > currently being compiled as it will be the top thingy on the list. > There has to be a better way.... > > Is there a way so that the terminal that the emerge is happening > in can display additional info? At the moment, I get: <SNIP> > here..." sort of thing. > > Any thoughts, greatly appreciated, > > Andrew >
I normally issue something like cat /var/log/emerge.log | grep -i compiling | tail -n 1 from another terminal. It shows the last package for which compiling started. if you change the -n 1 to -n 2 it'll show the last 2 packages (if you leave it out, you'll get the last 10). You could also replace compiling with i.e. merge (then it'll look for another part of the build process. Otherwise (like Walter stated) most terminals within X (that I've tried) add this info to the titlebar. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPybnNAAoJEJwwOFaNFkYcBkYH/35c9bgkWUyFORyPfcqsYvPA qAgKTBpS9i4FdA+TJYKBP+DpkNvlQlCtyb3I3YrrADSZKrQIopX9He55FDrxDh+6 /iySLA7/0DgKlJgxTofrXbJHpvZHsCjRF21UQJdk57RYD6JBGarCywJF52vNkNVz c2C9FfeZHXM1CdqWHApIE0UPa+mq6mnk81XrzbQ39PT6ObLuxVpsD8hVPO5puMLD +yYD3thNWyXx3WkDq1ZaR+sT+ZfYKjezByLS+N4Nj+BAAa5yC8I3A8b1HzCylo6d sfbltqbLSHdTtQhZJQq7EHqbqjJ3xs0HUkhzNqRHNJIoMFVkyQs3VnuHjjvNMBE= =WvQg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
