On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 20:23 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 13:14 -0800, David Lutterkort wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 12:40 -0800, Peter C. Norton wrote: > > > Should the corresponding information be summarized in the log, then? > > > The reason, etc. should go somewhere. > > > > I would be happy with all this stuff winding up on stderr, but a > > separate error log for yum might be nice for systems where yum isn't > > used much interactively. > > > > a summarized log doesn't really make it easier to script, though, you > need to have a parseable log and when you get to that point I think it's > time some starts to learn python rather than raking us across the coals > to provide a shell-script capable interface. Agreed. The only thing such a log might be useful is for inclusion in an alert to an admin. But either way, I am not too bothered about that right now. David
