Matthew Miller (mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > My main concern with this is that it's a lie. That file only exists because > of the default configuration. In many cases, rsyslog will be configured to > either write different files, or most likely, to write no local files at all > as all data is forwarded. And, as discussed in another subthread, I expect > this last configuration to be more and more common. So, not just a lie, but > a lie which may actually make it harder to use rsyslog in ways other than > the default. > > In an ideal view, it makes most sense to provide the rsyslog default > configuration in a subpackage which puts the /var/log/messages and > /var/log/secure conf files in /etc/rsyslog.d -- then, this subpackage would > provide those files. Unfortunately, in order to preserve behavior on > upgrade, the main package would have to depend on this, kind of making the > distinction moot. You don't need rsyslog to require rsyslog-put-your-files-here-config, you just need both of them to have Obsoletes for the versions before the split. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
