[Yum-devel] log installroot in file log

[seth vidal]

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. 

>  That also seems to solve problems where you use run from outside the
> chroot, but then want to then run inside the chroot as though all the
> commands happened there (with this fix you'd need to convert the
> logfile).
> 
>  If we do go this route though I'd prefer to not have anything be
> different for normal entries as this keeps backward compat. on the
> logfile format ... and is also how epoch is handled.

That's why I appended the chroot to keep from deeply messing up existing
regexes.

-sv