Re: dpkg logging
> > Previously Steve Greenland wrote:
> > > Stdout and stderr from the maintainer scripts. (This may be obvious, but
> >> you didn't explicitly list it.)
> >
> > No, they should use debconf.
>
> Regardless of whether packages are using debconf, I have wondered for *years*
> why we didn't at least have the option of logging stdout and stderr from
> everything in the install/update process. I think it's a good idea.
>
> Bdale
I have proposed this two years ago and implemented it in my automatic
installer for slink. The idea is to start a script session from an
initscript hook for vt1 and have all the debian installation started
automagically by the shell run by script with all output logged into
a logfile.
Since all can be done with shell script hacks this solution is very
easy to implement and requires very few changes to the installation
program. A simple shell wrapper should work.
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