On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 05:20:54PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > Hi misc@ readers, Marc, > > Interactive removal of a package with pkg_delete $pkg_name also asks > the removal of dependent packages (cool). > > This works OK and logs the removal of the package $pkg_name in messages > at the end of the procedure. But does not seem to log the removal of > the packages that also depend on the removed bits (and got removed). I > may be looking at the wrong place or something, but expected this to be > the same place. > > Would it be a good idea to also log removal of the dependent packages > while removing a package, for the sake of operator awareness? > > P.S. Running pkg_delete -a manually afterwards logs fine removed > packages (fallout) just fine. The removed dependants of $pkg_name > however are not logged in messages log. The result is, some details > are missed in the messages, while others comparative details are there. > > I'm asking because a python 2.7 upgrade from packages fails on a i386 > older machine here, and have to remove it to upgrade my packages. I > really don't care much about the python bit, just asking for the > logging case as explained above. > > Please ignore if this is superfluous noise, or wastes precious time. > > Regards, > Anton
/var/log/messages has all the info, actually.
