Dale, On Monday, 2023-05-15 11:35:33 -0500, you wrote:
> ... > If you got a minute, what is the reason for split-log? What exactly > does it split? I'm guessing this is new since I don't recall reading > about it. Under Gentoo each package has a name consisting of two parts: "category/ name". But since under Unix/Linux the "/" is used to separate path com- ponents, the build logs in "/var/log/portage/" have sort of ugly names: "category:name-version:YYYYMMDD:HHMMSS.log" with a colon rather than a slash between category and name. The "split-log" feature now splits the category to a sub-directory name under "/var/log/portage/build/" and us- es name, version and time stamp as the log file name. This enables you to simply use the full Gentoo package name in scripts as in $ pkg=media-gfx/gimp $ ls /var/log/portage/build/$pkg-*.log | sort -t : -rk 2,3 | head -1 to get the path to the most recent log file without first having to re- place the slash with a colon. This is probably only relevant if you write your own scripts to get your tasks done. And I don't have any idea whether or not it's new, I just found it by pure chance when looking for something else ... :-) Sincerely, Rainer
