Re: X Strike Force X.Org X11 SVN commit: r3962 - trunk/xserver/xorg-server/debian
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 10:44:06 -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:15:53PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > Also, it would be nice if there was a way to gzip the log and attach it,
> > instead of just appending it to the report, since it can be quite large
> > and potentially not make it to the list because of that (my log file
> > seems to be around 100k). Does anyone know if there is a way to do that?
>
> You may be able to just pipe it to gzip, although you'd have to test it to
> be sure. I have no real experience with reportbug scripts though, so I
> can't really tell you how to do that.
>
If I pipe it through gzip, it will output random bytes in the report,
and reportbug is not going to like that :)
Looking at reportbug, there doesn't seem to be a way to do anything else
than output stuff to fd 3 in the script, so I'll just go ahead and do
that.
Cheers,
Julien
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