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> From Sindi Keesan

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> My /var/log/messages file is still empty.
> How can i log what's going on?
>
> Specifically -- now that i'm enjoying being
> online so much (on both the Toshiba and the
> Compaq, both with the Aironet 350 card) --
> i've download all of the "addons" from the
> BasicLinux website ... but before i install
> them, i want to turn on a way to log exactly
> what installing them is going to do to the
> existing (i.e., mostly-original) BL system.

You can see what is in the packages with
tar -ztvf packagename.tgz

I forget how to save the output of that command to a file.

Sometimes there is an install.sh script in them which does things, but 
otherwise the pkg command just copies the files to where they are in the 
file structure in the package.  The slackware installpkg command which BL3 
does not use (it is larger) keeps track of what went where in 
/var/log/packages and lets you removepkg.  You can get it from Slackware 
4.0 if you are going to remove a lot of packages.


> I installed several addons in my virtual machines,
> and saw the paths of all manner of new files
> flying across the screen during the installation
> process. I'd like to keep a hard copy of those.
>
>
> -monz