Re: [devel] logging for package installs [Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 05:38:46PM -0400, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > - Display various fairly unimportant warnings, which are often not > useful until after the package is installed and you're using it. > - Display error messages, some fatal, and some not. > - Show progress displays (in contravention of policy of course). > - Various other indications of important and not so important things > that the maintainer script is doing. > - Remind users to read the README.Debian file.
For most (some?) of these, the syslog could be used. I'd find it convenient if the syslog (which I read through logcheck) contained messages like "dpkg: foo 1.2.3 replaced by 1.2.4" etc. Each package could also emit some more messages (in the style they use echo now, but probably somewhat terser) and those people who would like to know, could read it in the syslog. (The others probably don't even care about debconf dialog boxes.) Christoph -- Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.df7cb.de Wohnheim D, 2405, Universität des Saarlandes, 0681/9657944
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