[pacman-dev] scritplet output logging removed?

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/10/18, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org>:
> 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.

ah, I was wrong.

> >
> > 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.
>

+1. This will make finding post_install messages easier.

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)