On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:42:41PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote:
> Paul Martin wrote:
> >>It seems the cleaner approach would be patching logrotate so that it
> >>calls to an external script to obtain the list of log files...
> >>
> >>`/usr/sbin/syslogd-listfiles --weekly` {
> >> weekly
> >Something like this is a possibility, but there's a lot of work involved.
>
> OK. Could you pass this upstream so I could get their take on the
> matter before I commit the time to making a patch?
I'm afraid upstream is a moving target. I find a contact person within
RedHat, and then they move on to something else, leaving emails
unanswered. :-(
> Is there any alternative that does fall under the "must have"
> category? awk? perl? (Though neither could do preprocessing without
> also supplying a script implementing the preprocessor, making it a
> less clean solution.)
perl-base is "required", and logrotate could depend on it. Ditto for
"mawk", but not for "gawk".
> Is m4 considered a substantial enough package that it couldn't become
> "must have", or is that status only achieved after years of fighting
> for inclusion?
m4 is priority "standard". logrotate is priority "important".
"important" packages can't depend on lower priority packages.
required > important > standard > optional > extra
(Debian policy section 2.5)
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