On Donnerstag, 7. August 2008 23:05 Dan McGee wrote:
I'm actually with Dale here. I find it nice to go all the way back to the "beginning of time" with my install so I can see exactly what may have pulled in a now unneeded dep, etc. I just used this on my Eee yesterday to remove unnecessary packages originally pulled in by OpenOffice (hsqldb). I would rather old logs never get deleted; but even more I would rather the file never get touched.
You can archive your old logfiles. This at example be my settings in /etc/logrotate.conf for doing this: olddir /var/log/archiv rotate 2 size +4096k compress You can also use a bigger rotate with a less size. But i think this all is a very much personal thing because some wants uncompressed logs archivs, some wants all in one file and so on.-)
1) pacman.log would return to only being upgrade/install/remove messages. 2) another log file would be added that contained the verbose stuff. pacman_messages.log or something. 3) pacman.log never rotates/deletes. 4) pacman_messages.log rotates/deletes.
Because i use rotate together with compress my favorite is 2). See you, Attila