[pacman-dev] scritplet output logging removed?

Travis Willard travis at archlinux.org
Thu Oct 18 09:44:19 EDT 2007


On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:41:07 -0500, Dan McGee wrote
> On 10/18/07, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just saw this was removed by commit ad691001e :
> > "Remove scriptlet START and DONE commands that we don't use"
> >
> > Since the comment doesn't mention the logging, I just want to make sure this
> > was intended and not overlooked.
> 
> Hmm, another good catch. It looks like I did remove the logging
> unintentionally. I guess we need to incorporate that back in.
> 
> HOWEVER, I'd like to hear opinions on this. I always thought it was a
> dirty hack to throw this stuff to pacman.log, which previously was a
> very clean and machine-parseable log file. Its now a big steaming 
> pile of crap, in my opinion. I propose that we log these messages to 
> a separate file, with some date stamps incorporated. Any objections?
> 

+1 - another log file is cool by me.

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Travis




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