Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le Ven 24 novembre 2006 11:15, Hans de Goede a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> Many packages drop config files for logrotate in /etc/logrotate.d.
> without requiring logrotate, which is the owner of
> /etc/logrotate.d, thus potentially leading to an unowned /etc/logrotate.d
> for users who don't want logrotate and thus remove it.
>
> I see 2 solutions for this:
> 1) Add "Requires: logrotate" to all packages which put files in
> /etc/logrotate.d. IMHO this is not good as the user should be able
> to choose if he wants logrotate or not.
> 2) Add /etc/logrotate.d to the filesystem package, this is my preferred
> solution.
3. add Requires: /etc/logrotate.d to /etc/logrotate.d users
That's not really all that different than 1.
For now, imo, the only viable alternative is 1. Requires: logrotate
-- Rex