-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/21/09 10:53 AM, Javier Arantegui wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Alexander Hansen > <[email protected]> wrote: >> You've provided insufficient information. >> What OS version and architecture (e.g. 32bit vs. 64bit Fink on 10.6) are >> you on? > > I wonder if it would be too difficult to add a new option to fink to > get this information. Something like --version with steroids. It could > be 'fink --reportproblem' and the output could include all relevant > information about fink and the system. It could include the last error > log, if possible. Maybe it could make easier for newbies (like myself) > to report problems. It's really easy to forget to include this > information. > > Now I'm thinking that it could run automatically after an error and > tell the user that there is a Report file in the directory > ~/directory/problem_date.txt > > Season's greetings! > > Javier > > We probably don't want to turn logging on by default, because of the potential for filling up people's hard drives without their knowledge, but it would probably be a good idea to suggest in the package failure text that they retry the build with logging turned on--maybe it could be set to do that if logging were off, and if logging were on it could tell the user where the log is. We could automatically include the output that goes into "fink -V | head - -n2" and tell people to include that.
Also: Fink Commander (recently updated) provides a decent amount of system information. Maybe having a better log interface there would be helpful. - -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksvoDEACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ/SmACgqHe5/h2jujjddsvesv3dTrN+ ekIAnR+z4RHOtJieqGOlSUIrizMiipJx =tU1Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
