Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:47:22 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> I renamed my old emerge log file to .old1 to get off to a fresh start >> with the log file. It was getting pretty large. Anyway, to figure out >> how long something takes to emerge, I use this command and get this >> response: >> > [snip] > > >> Why does it not calculate the current compile time correctly? Is this a >> genlop bug or am I doing something wrong? >> > > The latter, I'm afraid. You've told genlop to look at the old log file, > but the start time of the current emerge is written to the new log file. > I use genlop -f when the current log file is in a different location > (when I'm emerging in a chroot and want to check progress from the > "parent" OS) and it works fine. > > What you are looking for is for genlop to consider multiple log files, > something it does not currently do. You could file a feature request bug > report. > > >
That sort of makes sense. It looks to me like it would see that all the emerges in the old log were completed. I may try pointing it to both files and see if that works any better. Give it more info if you will. Most likely won't work but I doubt it will let the smoke out either. ;-) Thanks for the info. Dale :-) :-)
