Re: Less interactive upgrades.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:36:15PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 16-Mar-00, 18:02 (CST), Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl> wrote:
> > Oh, and you still loose if people don't use apt.
>
> Well, there's a *lot* features one doesn't get unless one uses apt. So?
>
> > There is already a patch to make dpkg log things using syslog. At some
> > point I'ld like to generalize that, but we can't do that until debconf
> > is used everywhere. Woody+2 I think.
>
> Uh, why not publish the tool/capability, and let those packages that
> can use it do so? Having it a available would be an incentive to update
> one's packages, and be of at least partial benefit to the users. Or am I
> missing a point?
It's not something that packages have a choice of. The dpkg in the CVS
devel branch can log all of it's output, even make stdout silent
altogether with the exception of important messages (i.e. stderr). It just
will not be seen in production until potato is gone and I resolve the
issue with debconf (debconf plays arounf with stdout/stderr a lot, and
this functionality doesn't like it all the time).
Like I said though, I am not messing with any of this until potato is
released.
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