[Yum-devel] log installroot in file log

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 10:18 +0200, Florian Festi wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 14:50 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> > 
> >>  Who asked for this, and did they give a problem they are trying to
> >> solve by it?
> > 
> > chroot handling from outside.
> > 
> >>  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?
> > 
> > well, when we're operating on a chroot that's already existent we write
> > to $chroot/var/log/yum.log
> > 
> > if the chroot isn't there, yet, we write to /var/log/yum.log so that it
> > gets recorded somewhere. 
> 
> This might be the real problem. What about either just create 
> $chroot/var/log/yum.log when needed (might turn out to be fishy) or complain 
> if it isn't accessible and exit.
> 
> This "yeah, we logged it... somewhere" thing is asking for trouble.

the complaint I've heard is:
 "we make chroots and immediately destroy them but we still want a log
of what went on"

-sv