[Yum-devel] log installroot in file log

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 14:50 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 20:21 +0200, Terje Røsten wrote:
> > * seth vidal
> > > A while back it was suggested that we log which installroot the pkgs
> > > were installed in if it is not /
> > > 
> > > so something like:
> > > Oct 17 13:37:01 Installed: zsh - 4.3.4-4.fc8.i386 - /my/chroot
> > > Oct 17 13:38:33 Erased: zsh - /my/chroot
> > 
> > > I just added this in - does it make sense to everyone to not list it if
> > > it /?
> 
>  Who asked for this, and did they give a problem they are trying to
> solve by it?
>  I think a better solution is to use a different log file when using a
> custom installroot, so maybe they'd be happy with a --logfile cmd line
> option?

It wasn't such a huge problem in the past when we just did file logging,
but now that we also log to syslog, we either need to make the logging
more explicit or give a good way to disable the syslogging. 

Jeremy