[pacman-dev] scritplet output logging removed?

[Aaron Griffin]

On 10/18/07, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:36:37 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote
> > What about putting it in the local DB entry for each package?
> > /var/lib/pacman/local/screen/install.log ?
>
> -1
>
> While that associates it nicely with its related package, I don't really
> like the idea of users needing to traipse through their local DB to get the
> logs - what if at some point in the future we decide to change DB formats, say
> from filesystem to database, for example?
>
> IMO /var/log is the place for logs like this.  If you want to separate it by
> package, then /var/log/pacman/{pkgname}/install.log could work, or some
> variant thereof, or we could just jam it all into one file and have
> delineations, like
>
> --------- Installed libfoo, 01/01/1901 ------------
> ==> Warning: Libfoo needs libbar to support foobar functionality.
> ==> pacman -S libbar to get it.
> --------- Installed kernel26, /01/01/1901 ----------
> ==> Generating mkinitcpio crap...
> blah
> blah
> blah
> ==> Done.
>
> And so on.

Yeah /var/log is a much better place - moreover I was trying to
suggest the "one log file per package" but I don't know how good of an
idea that is.

I actually kinda like Travis' format above with the delimiter there.