'Twas brillig, and David Walser at 06/02/13 18:28 did gyre and gimble: > Colin Guthrie <mageia@...> writes: >> Oh, for the avoidance of doubt, I don't think there is any argument that >> would suggest the removal from the repositories or obsoletion of rsyslog >> or syslog-ng etc. > > I agree, and that's consistent with what you've said in the past. I thought > it was odd that the idea of obsoleting them came up yesterday in the packager > meeting, but it did. The main reason was wanting to know if rsyslog should > still be on the DVD, in case of users using it to upgrade from Mageia 2. > > It may be the case that not upgrading that particular package during the DVD > upgrade won't *break* anything and it can just be upgraded after the system > is booted and urpmi sources are added, in which case it doesn't *need* to be > on the DVD. Otherwise, we should make sure it's on there.
What I guess we could to to avoid putting rsyslog on the physical media would be to put a versioned conflicts in the main systemd package with rsyslog and syslog-ng. Thus the old packages should be removed when upgrading (AIUI). Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
