On Donnerstag, 7. August 2008 23:05 Dan McGee wrote:
> I'm actually with Dale here. I find it nice to go all the way back to
> the "beginning of time" with my install so I can see exactly what may
> have pulled in a now unneeded dep, etc. I just used this on my Eee
> yesterday to remove unnecessar
David,
On 2008-08-07, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> Well, it'd be pointless to rotate the logs if the old ones would never
> get deleted.
I think that a combination of the "size" and "copy" options (of
logrotate) would allow for one big log file and several size-based
snapshots of that file.
> K
Daenyth Blank wrote:
Even then I think the current behavior is fine. I think providing a
logrotate script might be fine, but rather than having it rotate by
time, is there a way that it can rotate by size? For example: when
sizeof(pacman.log) >= $N mb; rotate.
You can rotate based on size. Th
> While we're proposing ideas what about this:
> * new scriptlet function "message()", that just outputs text.
> * add a -Q operation to call the message() function.
>
> Then there's really no need for scriptlet logging at all.
The issue that I see with this is that often you can't keep up with
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Dale Blount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 15:42 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:38 PM, David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > I not
Dan McGee wrote:
I'm actually with Dale here. I find it nice to go all the way back to
the "beginning of time" with my install so I can see exactly what may
have pulled in a now unneeded dep, etc. I just used this on my Eee
yesterday to remove unnecessary packages originally pulled in by
OpenOffi
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Dale Blount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 15:42 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:38 PM, David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > I noticed that the pacman log doesn't get rotated. Seems like it should,
>> > as
>
Dale Blount wrote:
My only request here is that it saves at least a years worth of updates
by default. If something breaks on my system and I don't notice it for
a few months, I can't tell if an update broke it or not.
I have a 828Kb pacman.log from a 5 year old install. Granted I don't
-Syu a
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 15:42 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:38 PM, David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I noticed that the pacman log doesn't get rotated. Seems like it should, as
> > it could get rather big over time. Any particular reason why the package
> >
Aaron Griffin wrote:
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:38 PM, David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I noticed that the pacman log doesn't get rotated. Seems like it should, as
it could get rather big over time. Any particular reason why the package
doesn't provide a /etc/logrotate.d/ script by
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:38 PM, David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I noticed that the pacman log doesn't get rotated. Seems like it should, as
> it could get rather big over time. Any particular reason why the package
> doesn't provide a /etc/logrotate.d/ script by default?
I don't
I noticed that the pacman log doesn't get rotated. Seems like it
should, as it could get rather big over time. Any particular reason why
the package doesn't provide a /etc/logrotate.d/ script by default?
DR
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:00 PM, David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is Tom K still an Arch dev? I dropped him a couple of emails about the
> openvpn package (which he's listed as the maintainer on) but haven't heard
> anything back.
Last I heard from him, he had some real-life issues
Is Tom K still an Arch dev? I dropped him a couple of emails about the
openvpn package (which he's listed as the maintainer on) but haven't
heard anything back.
DR
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