Bug#981728: please document eipp.log
On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 12:02:43PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 11:54:23AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > recent apt versions write /var/log/apt/eipp.log.xz. This is not
> > documented anywhere, codesearch just finds a handful of appearances,
> > none of which gives any advice.
> >
> > Please document what the file is, what is written to it, why there is no
> > log rotation, and how to turn it off ;-)
>
> It's documented in doc/external-installation-planner-protocol.md
> (e-i-p-p), which is installed in apt-doc as
>
> /usr/share/doc/apt/external-installation-planner-protocol.md.gz
zgrep -i eipp.log /usr/share/doc/apt/external-installation-planner-protocol.md.gz
(nothing)
> What do you think is missing? Did you look at /usr/share/doc/apt after
> installing apt-doc?
I grepped. Also, the string "log" doesn't show up in any other places
then in the word terminoLOGy. This is impossible to find if you don't
know exactly what you're searching for.
> It contains a dump of the last ordering request, it does not grow.
So it is more like Xorg.log.0 than apt.log, right?
> It
> will be useful if installating ordering failed for you and we ask you to
> please attach eipp.log.xz when you report the bug :-)
How would I turn it off for my servers that will never ever report a bug
against apt (because I have a test environment to reproduce bugs in
before I report them)?
Greetings
Marc
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