Re: Logging for dselect/dpkg?

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "ES" == Ed Slocomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

ES> Does dselect/dpkg keep a log of the individual package install
ES> script outputs?  That stuff tend to just go flying past me on the
ES> screen, and I occaisionally catch a glimpse of important
ES> installation/activation instructions.  Where can I go to find out
ES> what I'm missing?

I don't think there is such a thing. But I remember that one of the
access methods does logging (mountable IIRC).

But you could use script (from bsdutils) to catch the output.

script install.log
# do some installing
exit
less install.log

Ciao,
Martin

RE: Logging for dselect/dpkg?

[Ed]

> There is no logging provisions in deselect/dpkg, but you can cheat. On
> any virtual console, you can use scroll lock to pause scrolling, and
> you can use shift-pgup and shift-pgdn to scroll up and down the
> virtual console. This works inside and outside of dselect.
> 
> -Alex
>

Neat tricks, but I usually need to refer to that info *after* I've
installed my shiny new packages, and there's frequently more output than
will fit in the scroll buffer.

I think I'd rather tee -a the output to a file.

...After thnking about it a bit, It looks like I need to run deselect
and quit before the install step, then run

deselect install | tee -a dinstall.log

or similar.


Will apt have logging capabilities?  I haven't messed with it yet.