On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> > > Previously Steve Greenland wrote:
> > > > Stdout and stderr from the maintainer scripts. (This may be obvious, but
> > >> you didn't explicitly list it.)
> > >
> > > No, they should use debconf.
> >
> > Regardless of whether packages are using debconf, I have wondered for
> > *years*
> > why we didn't at least have the option of logging stdout and stderr from
> > everything in the install/update process. I think it's a good idea.
> >
> > Bdale
>
> I have proposed this two years ago and implemented it in my automatic
> installer for slink. The idea is to start a script session from an
> initscript hook for vt1 and have all the debian installation started
> automagically by the shell run by script with all output logged into
> a logfile.
>
> Since all can be done with shell script hacks this solution is very
> easy to implement and requires very few changes to the installation
> program. A simple shell wrapper should work.
Yes please. Where can I find it?
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