To preface, i'm not sure if this is the ideal list for this (perhaps -admintool would be a good choice), so please bear with me, and nudge me in the right direction if appropriate.
There is a missing feature among all the upgrade clients i've tried in debian. During the upgrade, various packages will spit out messages that can actually be of importance; some have the kindness/impertinance to wait for the user to acknowledge he's seen it; many do not. What i would like to see is some form of summary or log mode that the user can browse after an install/upgrade to get all the messages. The idea i have currently would be sectioned into sections including: Error in Installation Successfuly Installed Important Changes (postgress upgrade imcompatibilities, etc.) Warnings (failure to remove non-empty directories, etc.) You'd have a list not unlike the packages in dselect, although ideally you could zip up the tree (more like in console-apt). They could be titled by package, and have the full text of the output when you cursor/mouse to them. In order to get this information, probably any of the install scripts would need to use a new infrastructure, perhaps a deb-warn, deb-change, or such function, that the current package handler could intercept and log for the later browsing. I don't yet have anything more than the idea, but i'm fully willing to work with others to implement this. (i may be at a disadvantage here - until now i've just used the software, and am unfamiliar with its internals.) What do you all think? -m -- Michael Urman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg: 1024g/55C56706 : C3D7 2A8F 6261 3DE4 F544 6DC3 A1D5 BEF6 156F 65A4 <mwr#debian> bsd is also responsible for porn nets, then, too? Groovy.
