RE: Logging for dselect/dpkg?

[Ed <eds@subpop.com>]

> There is no logging provisions in deselect/dpkg, but you can cheat. On
> any virtual console, you can use scroll lock to pause scrolling, and
> you can use shift-pgup and shift-pgdn to scroll up and down the
> virtual console. This works inside and outside of dselect.
> 
> -Alex
>

Neat tricks, but I usually need to refer to that info *after* I've
installed my shiny new packages, and there's frequently more output than
will fit in the scroll buffer.

I think I'd rather tee -a the output to a file.

...After thnking about it a bit, It looks like I need to run deselect
and quit before the install step, then run

deselect install | tee -a dinstall.log

or similar.


Will apt have logging capabilities?  I haven't messed with it yet.