On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 05:02:55PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Paul Martin <p...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 03:04:32PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > > >> No, it'll merely work around it. It won't make the piuparts error go > >> away either. > > > > As noted in the bug that already existed, the only correct way to do > > this is to have the equivalent of > > > > [ -f /usr/sbin/lighttpd ] || exit 0 > > > > for logrotate. That will require changes to logrotate itself, then for > > each package to adapt their /etc/logrotate.d/ scripts accordingly. > > What's the reason you're not CCing 588...@bugs.debian.org?
Because the first email to arrive is the direct one from you. > Why is it ok if the files don't exist but is it not ok if the dir > doesn't exist? "missingok" is a configuration option to allow files to be missing, but not having the directory is a possible configuration error (eg. a typo). Please note that I did not write logrotate: RedHat did. -- Paul Martin <p...@debian.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
