Bug#96652: marked as done (apt; want message log)
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From: Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org>
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Subject: apt; want message log
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Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 15:34:01 +0200
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: wishlist
I suggest what I think is a very important feature.
I suggest the apt-get by default create a log in /var/lib/dpkg of every
message appearing when it runs. This would be very helpful when I
forget to run apt-get dselect-upgrade in an Emacs buffer to look at the
warnings printed by the various postinst scripts and similar sources.
Without this feature, I have no way to recover those messages once I run
apt-get on a different console than the one I work on.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux pot 2.2.13 #17 Tue May 9 13:12:19 CEST 2000 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.2-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-0.01042 The GNU stdc++ library
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Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:27:38 -0400
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: apt; want message log
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There are already many ways to implement this, using tools such as script(1)
and (as you pointed out) emacs. I don't think there is significant value in
duplicating this functionality in apt.
As far as warnings being printed by packages, these should be done via
debconf now anyway, so you can have them sent by mail, etc.
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- mdz
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