On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 07:14:39PM -0500, Nick Cabatoff wrote: > So I've decided that I don't feel like waiting any longer for the > wishlist bug for syslog output from dpkg to be implemented. I've > written a little shell wrapper that will do this for me, and will make > it available if anyone likes - I may send it here for cricitism > regardless. > > However, I realize that this is really not the right approach, it's just > expedient. I'd be quite happy to patch dpkg (my needs are simple, so I > don't think it'd be hard), but I don't want to bother unless I think > it'll be integrated. So I'm writing this to find out how it should be > written such that it'll be most likely to be incorporated. Thoughts, > opinions, flames?
You don't have to wait much longer. I already have experienmental support in the dpkg CVS tree (seperate branch I have been working on). Just give it some time. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'