[Yum-devel] syslog support

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Jun 9 07:57:17 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 10:15 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 03:56:02AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > If we do option 3 or 4 we could get all the info in the context we need
> > but it wouldn't be outputting to syslog as it occurs so if we hit a
> > fatal error or traceback the data might never get to syslog.
> > However, if we do option 4 then we could save the file
> > into /var/cache/yum and notice it on the next startup if it still
> > exists, and dump the contents to syslog then with the nice messages
> > about things breaking.
> 
> Hmmm. The rpm output thing does throw a wrench in the works. I think what
> you suggest above would make me pretty happy.

Great! So when you gonna send that patch in? ;)

O've got it down as an issue i'd like to hit before 2.4 but we'll see
how that actually ends up.

-sv







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