On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 07:10:35PM +0100, Aur?lien Degr?mont wrote: > I'm using Yum for few months and i'm quite satisfied by it. Great! > When using it, I found its messages were to verbose and annoying, so i > change the debuglevel flag into yum.conf to 1. > This was quite well, but i was surprise when I see some messages like this : > > [lelfe@syunikiss lelfe]$ sudo yum update > Is this ok [y/N]: > > Errrr.... ? What's ok ? > Of course the question concerned the packages that will be > updated/installed/removed, but they were not displayed, due to the too > small debug level. Sure. they're associated with loglevel 2, and you set your threshold to loglevel 1. Normally, one would also do "-y" in that situation. > I think these informations are really important and should be always > displayed. Even when using "-y" in a cron job? I don't think so. > So I made a small patch to correct this. It just change the > related log level inside clientStuff.py . > I think it may be interesting for yum to check these messages and their > log level. Each log level must provide more informations than the > previous one, but they must be ordered by importance level. Information > concerning what must be installed/removed,... are very useless and i > don't understand why they're only displayed from the log level 2. > Level 1 could be a good level which displays only the most important > informations (0 could be keep to a no-message levels or > only-error-messages level). The problem is that ordering things "by importance level" is both subjective and situation-dependent. Nonetheless, your point is well taken. We'll try and take a look at the log levels for the new version (HEAD). Logging is getting overhauled anyway, and so it's a good time to look at the levels again. We probably won't accept your patch for the current version because it would likely screw up lots of people's cron jobs. -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ECE 524G
