On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:13:57 +0100 Stroller <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 April 2014, at 2:32 pm, Tom Wijsman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> ... > >> Do you seriously consider it up for debate whether or not it's a > >> bug, when daily error messages are produced and emailed to the > >> system admin? > > > > That depends on whether you consider that to be the expected > > behavior for the way it has been set up; the cause is already > > known, wrong perms. > > Well, it seems to be the Gentoo devs that set it up this way. > > You're the expert - you tell me why this is happening. Your found information and the post installation messages tell this: "Traditionally mcelog was run as a cronjob, but this usage is deprecated now. The modern way to run it is to start it at boot up time and run it always as a daemon." "A sample cronjob is installed into /etc/cron.daily without executable bit (system service is the preferred method now)" There is nothing extra for a non-maintainer to add to this. > You haven't given me any explanation why this package is on a > freshly-installed Gentoo system, you haven't told me in the Gentoo > install docs that I need to configure this package, have you? That is because you have installed it; and if you did install it, then the useful post installation messages tell you this information. To demonstrate that this is the case, app-admin/mcelog is ... ... not part of the current stage3 as revealed by its contents list; $ grep app-admin/mcelog stage3-amd64-20140410.tar.bz2.CONTENTS $ ... not pulled in by another dependency as recorded in the database; $ grep --include='*DEPEND' -rl app-admin/mcelog /var/db/pkg/ $ ... not pulled in through profiles and therefore not by the @system set $ grep -r app-admin/mcelog /usr/portage/profiles/ $ ... and not listed as the dependency of any package in the Portage tree. $ grep --include='*.ebuild' --exclude='mcelog-*' -r app-admin/mcelog /usr/portage/ $ -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : [email protected] GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
