On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 12:02:43PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 11:54:23AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > recent apt versions write /var/log/apt/eipp.log.xz. This is not > > documented anywhere, codesearch just finds a handful of appearances, > > none of which gives any advice. > > > > Please document what the file is, what is written to it, why there is no > > log rotation, and how to turn it off ;-) > > It's documented in doc/external-installation-planner-protocol.md > (e-i-p-p), which is installed in apt-doc as > > /usr/share/doc/apt/external-installation-planner-protocol.md.gz
zgrep -i eipp.log /usr/share/doc/apt/external-installation-planner-protocol.md.gz (nothing) > What do you think is missing? Did you look at /usr/share/doc/apt after > installing apt-doc? I grepped. Also, the string "log" doesn't show up in any other places then in the word terminoLOGy. This is impossible to find if you don't know exactly what you're searching for. > It contains a dump of the last ordering request, it does not grow. So it is more like Xorg.log.0 than apt.log, right? > It > will be useful if installating ordering failed for you and we ask you to > please attach eipp.log.xz when you report the bug :-) How would I turn it off for my servers that will never ever report a bug against apt (because I have a test environment to reproduce bugs in before I report them)? Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
