Re: [PATCH] Don't open anaconda logs for appending.

[David Lehman <dlehman redhat com>]

On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 13:10 -0500, Chris Lumens wrote:
> This prevents live installs from having log files that just grow and
> grow every time the user restarts liveinst.

I would prefer if we put a big stamp/header in each log at the start of
each run. That way we can see what all has been done and also have a
good way to separate the data from various runs.

Dave

> ---
>  pyanaconda/anaconda_log.py |    2 +-
>  pyanaconda/yuminstall.py   |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/pyanaconda/anaconda_log.py b/pyanaconda/anaconda_log.py
> index 04dea8d..9be016e 100644
> --- a/pyanaconda/anaconda_log.py
> +++ b/pyanaconda/anaconda_log.py
> @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ class AnacondaLog:
>                          fmtStr=ENTRY_FORMAT,
>                          autoLevel=False):
>          if isinstance(file, types.StringTypes):
> -            logfileHandler = logging.FileHandler(file)
> +            logfileHandler = logging.FileHandler(file, "w")
>          else:
>              logfileHandler = logging.StreamHandler(file)
>  
> diff --git a/pyanaconda/yuminstall.py b/pyanaconda/yuminstall.py
> index fe88586..dec146e 100644
> --- a/pyanaconda/yuminstall.py
> +++ b/pyanaconda/yuminstall.py
> @@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ class AnacondaYum(yum.YumBase):
>  
>          import yum.logginglevels
>  
> -        file_handler = logging.FileHandler("/tmp/yum.log")
> +        file_handler = logging.FileHandler("/tmp/yum.log", "w")
>          file_formatter = logging.Formatter("[%(asctime)s] %(levelname)-8s: %(message)s")
>          file_handler.setFormatter(file_formatter)
>