[augeas-devel] Re: [Augeas] #80: [RFE] Please add a way to increase verbosity.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:58:07AM -0000, Augeas wrote:
> #80: [RFE] Please add a way to increase verbosity.
> --------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
>   Reporter:  wakko666     |       Owner:  lutter
>       Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  closed
>   Priority:  major        |   Milestone:        
>  Component:  Augeas       |     Version:        
> Resolution:  invalid      |    Keywords:        
> --------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
> Changes (by lutter):
> 
>   * status:  new => closed
>   * resolution:  => invalid
> 
> Comment:
> 
>  Since there is a lot that can go wrong all at once when you save, just
>  dumping that on stdout/stderr by default is not very useful.
> 
>  Therefore, all error messages are stored in the tree, underneath /augeas.
>  The best way to see them after something went wrong is to
> 
>  {{{
>    augtool> print /augeas//error
>  }}}
> 
>  (note the double '/' above - that's needed to find all error nodes
>  underneath /augeas)

I would say that the error message should be changed from just "Saving
failed" to something more informative, telling the user how to go
about printing the errors.

Rich.

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