printf di | xargs aptitude -y upgrade and logs in /var/log/apt/term.log

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Subject: printf di | xargs aptitude -y upgrade and logs in /var/log/apt/term.log
From: Regid Ichira <regid.i@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 04:49:22 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] COL119-W259029539E9D9340AE42F7F5EA0@phx.gbl>

  Am I right having aptitude stdin connected to a pipe, as in 

    # printf di | xargs aptitude -y upgrade

will cause aptitude NOT to log its actions to /var/log/apt/* ?

  I think this is a bug.  Do you agree?

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