On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 12:41:02PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > 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)
Well sure, it documents the format, not a file location. > > > 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. Probably needs some fixing some day. Probably after bullseye, we don't want to invalidate all those translations now I suppose. > > > 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? Sort of? It's just a dump in one go thing, not a log stream. > > > 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)? $ apt-config dump | grep eipp Dir::Log::Planner "eipp.log.xz"; Set it to /dev/null just like any other file. All the concerns raised here also apply to edsp, and well any log file. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
