Re: aptitude logging question
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 09:26:24AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Is it possible just using aptitude to log what happens as a result of
> system upgrades and package installations?
dpkg already keeps a log in /var/log/
> x11-common and xserver-xorg where --print-installation-architecture had
> been used. I'm wondering if I had configured aptitude correctly aptitude
> could have left me a file with the package names along with warnings and
> errors in it so that if there were more than just those two packages this
> had happened to I could fix all of them just using that log. Of course a
> log like that would be dangerous if dpkg ever went into one of its fatal
> error loops and filled up the disk space. In the event debian got say
What fatal error loop would this be then?
> /tmp filled to maximum and the computer was rebooted to bring debian up
> again, would debian be able to come up running?
If /tmp was on its own partition then yes.
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