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Re: Do all frontends use the dpkg binary?



On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 18:19 +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 06:11:42PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > > In my quest to log package installation, I wrote a wrapper script for
> > > dpkg.
> > 
> > $ tail -1 /etc/apt/apt.conf
> > DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"logger -t DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs";};
> 
> I wonder if it would be possible to set is as default behaviour along with
> some logrotate scripts. Users quite often ask where are dpkg's actions
> logged so I think this would be good idea.
> 
This would mean the disk would gradually fill up with logs, unless you
rotated them; which seems to defeat the use case everybody has given for
dpkg's actions being logged in the first place.

Scott
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