On 07/18/2013 06:11 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 02:19:30PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
So, you suggest using "Requires: /var/log/messages" and "Provides:
/var/log/messages" as indication for this, and the %ghost
/var/log/messages in the packages in question?
Sounds good to me! Matthew?
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.
So... /var/log/messages is not guaranteed to be there even now, because
it depends on rsyslog configuration. So any packages which cannot handle
missing /var/log/messages are broken already in a non-default (but
probably not all that uncommon) config, and nobody is crying out about that.
This whole logfile provides/requires thing seems mostly like a solution
in search of a problem to me.
- Panu -
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