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FS#19857 - Very good idea for pacman and pacman.log!

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by trusktr (trusktr) - Saturday, 19 June 2010, 02:30 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 19 June 2010, 03:18 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

It'd be very useful if pacman also included in pacman.log the actual command used (e.g. "pacman -Syu") before actually listing the chain of actions (installed, upgraded, removed, etc).

Currently we see in the log a continuous list of "installed, upgraded, removed, etc". So if you do pacman -Syu, for example, pacman would add many "upgraded" lines to the log.

What would be neato is if pacman added one single line that showed the command used (e.g. pacman -Syu) before all of the rest of the lines were added.

This would help a ton when researching through the pacman log (which i had to do to figure out why/when/how something was installed on my system. pacman.log provided useful hints, but seeing the command used would definitely confirm the fact that someone else (not me) installed XXX package manually and not as part of a group, etc).
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Saturday, 19 June 2010, 03:18 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Comment by trusktr (trusktr) - Saturday, 19 June 2010, 02:55 GMT Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 19 June 2010, 03:17 GMT
[2010-06-19 11:45] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2010-06-19 11:45] synchronizing package lists
[2010-06-19 11:45] starting full system upgrade

Already done in pacman-3.4
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 19 June 2010, 03:17 GMT
And in future file pacman bugs in the "pacman" section.

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