GNU bug report logs - #44985
ANSI sequences in unattended-upgrades.log?

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org>

Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 09:01:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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Message #8 received at 44985 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org>
Cc: 44985 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44985: ANSI sequences in unattended-upgrades.log?
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 22:05:33 +0100

Hi!

Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org> skribis:

> Hi!  The unattended-upgrades.log file is quite unreadable due to ANSI
> sequences.  Probably use of them should be disabled when output is a log
> file?

This is mostly fixed by d613c1771a1986d3c0f1e034155fde41f32f9b8e.

There’s one remaining case where ANSI escapes can go through, that’s the
“updating substitutes” messages.  This one requires a bit more work
because it’s written on the daemon side.

Ludo’.
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