commit ac0baec92e57da7299202096cb15e7cfac089155
Author: dmorgan <dmorgan@localhost.(none)>
Date:   Sun Jun 26 22:35:57 2011 +0200

    add loging facilities through syslog

    originally written by Frederic Lepied on Tue Jan 16 2001
    (in rpm-4.0-0.15mdk.src.rpm):
    "log install and removal of packages through syslog"
    
    rediffed over the years by Pascal Rigaux and me


diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 3cd23e3..3fee053 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -196,6 +196,12 @@ AC_SUBST(WITH_LZMA_LIB)
 #=================
 
 dnl
+dnl Checking syslog
+dnl
+
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS(syslog.h)
+
+dnl
 dnl Check for features
 dnl
 
diff --git a/lib/psm.c b/lib/psm.c
index 6cf4ef9..338a219 100644
--- a/lib/psm.c
+++ b/lib/psm.c
@@ -1009,6 +1009,15 @@ static rpmRC rpmpsmStage(rpmpsm psm, pkgStage stage)
 	rc = (rpmdbAdd(rpmtsGetRdb(ts), h) == 0) ? RPMRC_OK : RPMRC_FAIL;
 	(void) rpmswExit(rpmtsOp(ts, RPMTS_OP_DBADD), 0);
 
+
+#if HAVE_SYSLOG_H
+       {
+               if (rpmExpandNumeric("%{_use_syslog}")) {
+                       syslog(LOG_NOTICE, "[RPM] %s installed\n", rpmteNEVRA(psm->te));
+               }
+       }
+#endif
+
 	if (rc == RPMRC_OK)
 	    rpmteSetDBInstance(psm->te, headerGetInstance(h));
 	headerFree(h);
@@ -1019,6 +1028,15 @@ static rpmRC rpmpsmStage(rpmpsm psm, pkgStage stage)
 	rc = (rpmdbRemove(rpmtsGetRdb(ts), rpmteDBInstance(psm->te)) == 0) ?
 						    RPMRC_OK : RPMRC_FAIL;
 	(void) rpmswExit(rpmtsOp(ts, RPMTS_OP_DBREMOVE), 0);
+
+#if HAVE_SYSLOG_H
+        {
+               if (rpmExpandNumeric("%{_use_syslog}")) {
+                       syslog(LOG_NOTICE, "[RPM] %s removed\n", rpmteNEVRA(psm->te));
+               }
+       }
+#endif
+
 	if (rc == RPMRC_OK)
 	    rpmteSetDBInstance(psm->te, 0);
 	break;
diff --git a/macros.in b/macros.in
index a279995..fff1e23 100644
--- a/macros.in
+++ b/macros.in
@@ -1060,6 +1060,9 @@ done \
 %__urlhelper_proxyopts   %{?_httpproxy:--proxy %{_httpproxy}%{?_httpport::%{_httpport}}}%{!?_httpproxy:%{nil}}
 %_urlhelper             %{__urlhelpercmd} %{?__urlhelper_localopts} %{?__urlhelper_proxyopts} %{__urlhelperopts}
 
+# Syslog support when installing/removing rpms
+%_use_syslog  1
+
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Collection specific macros
 %__plugindir		%{_libdir}/rpm-plugins
diff --git a/system.h b/system.h
index 9b23e45..53f7f05 100644
--- a/system.h
+++ b/system.h
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
 #include "config.h"
 #endif
 
+#if HAVE_SYSLOG_H
+#include <syslog.h>
+#endif
+
 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H
 #include <sys/param.h>
 #endif