Where are the pacman upgrade messages stored?

occam · 2010-02-18 09:57:54

I believe that somewhere the pacman upgrade messages are stored - but where? One is supposed to read them carefully, but they scroll away too quickly..

tomk · 2010-02-18 10:03:24

/var/log/pacman.log

occam · 2010-02-18 10:45:24

The names of the installed packages are there, but where are all the messages? Especially those about files that had to be actioned - I had time to read something about .conf files that had to be done, but exactly what??

anti-destin · 2010-02-18 14:25:46

they're in there as well.

occam · 2010-02-19 07:01:55

Using 'grep -R pacman /var' (and other 'grep -R --- /var') I got one line that seemed relevant, warning that /etc/modprobe.d/framebuffer_blacklist.conf had got an update '...pacnew'. That was all. Nothing in dmesg.
Maybe all scrolling text referred to that single line?

tomk · 2010-02-19 15:35:08

No idea what you're trying to do with that grep command. As I said above, pacman's log is /var/log/pacman.log - you can read the whole thing with less or another pager, or you can do grep <something> /var/log/pacman.log.

FYI dmesg contains kernel messages only.

occam · 2010-02-19 22:40:57

The '-R' option tells grep to look in all files and folders under /var (including the file you named).
Checking dmesg was an act of desperation..

tomk · 2010-02-19 22:57:09

OK... but since I had already told you where the log file was, there was no need to look in all files/dirs under /var...

.:B:. · 2010-02-20 01:13:10

Pacman.log will contain *everything*, as tomk said. I'm not sure what you are looking for or what you think you've seen, but all package management output - displayed warnings etc., custom installation messages, the works - are all in there.

occam · 2010-02-21 04:00:27

Ok, I had to reboot to fix a severely slow clock and when I checked for alarming messages they had all disappeared.
Evidently one single change was enough for MANY messages.

tomk · 2010-02-21 08:52:01

Your original query was about pacman messages, and any such messages that were logged previously are still in your pacman log, with a date/time stamp. They have not disappeared, and they will not disappear unless you decide to clear the pacman log yourself.

zero-giulio · 2010-03-07 12:49:49

During installation of gnome I encountered several messages about optional dependencies.

I didn't found them in pacman.log

Where can I find them?

Arch Linux

#1 2010-02-18 09:57:54

Where are the pacman upgrade messages stored?

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