Re: RFC: allow output from maintainer scripts
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Yes, a unix domain socket, or pre-opened file FD, some mechanism passed in
> through an environment variable. We can set a reasonable format so we can
> tag messages w/ priority. The absense of such a variable would just echo
> to stdout.
That would work.
> Randolph was working on a similar scheme for debconf at one point,
> IIRC he was going to use a unix socket (which is good for debconf)
Randolph has something in debconf like this to allow arbitrary external
programs like console-apt eventually, to serve as a debconf frontend.
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