[Yum-devel] log installroot in file log

[Florian Festi]

seth vidal wrote:
> 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"

cp?