On Monday 30 January 2006 07:41, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
Another example of such issues is when i installed laptop-mode
tools for the first time: it messed my acpid configuration, because
it was adding in /etc/acpi/{events,actions}.d some handlers for
things i had already configured
Marcelo Góes wrote:
If INSTALL_MASK is the correct way to prevent logrotate stuff from
being installed, then those 8 ebuilds I mentioned earlier should drop
the USE flag and install it by default. That's probably easier to fix,
too.
This cannot be done for squid, because this useflag selects
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:58:52 -0800
Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You want people to recompile the whole package to get another
text file installed?
When would one recompile a package just for that? Only case i can
think of is when someone who already has setup his apache / ftp /
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:07:15 +0100
Thomas de Grenier de Latour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i would not appreciate to see it suddenly handling a new service
because a xinet.d file has been silently added by a new version
of an ebuild.
Ok, i see all files i have installed in that dir have
Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:58:52 -0800
Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You want people to recompile the whole package to get another
text file installed?
When would one recompile a package just for that? Only case i can
think of is when someone
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On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 07:46:30AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
We already had this discussion. It's not that it's another file, it's
that it's another file in /etc, which is backed up and requires
administrator attention on every upgrade.
Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
Or again another one (a bit ugly imho tho): merge the files in an
/etc/logrotate.d.dist directory, and add an eselect module to
handle symlinks from /etc/logrotate.d.
What's ugly about this? I like it.
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Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:58:52 -0800
Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You want people to recompile the whole package to get another
text file installed?
When would one recompile a package just for that? Only case i can
think of is when someone
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:51:25 -0800
Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
Or again another one (a bit ugly imho tho): merge the files in
an /etc/logrotate.d.dist directory, and add an eselect module
to handle symlinks from /etc/logrotate.d.
What's
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:51:29 -0800
Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And any other new file in /etc you also want a USE flag
introduced for? Sounds real scalable. Or is this just an
exception from the rule?
Sure it's an exception. I make the difference beetween:
- usual /etc/ files:
Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
It would be interesting to know how that happened for in the past
for /etc/bash_completion.d, which made a similar move iirc
Yes, it would.
(although real files went to /usr/share/something, whereas here i
would rather see them in etc because they are more
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:15:57 +0100 Thomas de Grenier de Latour
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| It would be interesting to know how that happened for in the past
| for /etc/bash_completion.d, which made a similar move iirc
Have you any idea how slow bash is if you use all the completion files
for every
Marcelo Góes wrote:
It seems there are some ebuilds with a logrotate USE flag:
use.local.desc:34:app-backup/bacula:logrotate - Install support files
for logrotate
use.local.desc:550:mail-filter/dspam:logrotate - Install support files
for logrotate
Doug Goldstein wrote:
Marcelo Góes wrote:
It seems there are some ebuilds with a logrotate USE flag:
use.local.desc:34:app-backup/bacula:logrotate - Install support files
for logrotate
use.local.desc:550:mail-filter/dspam:logrotate - Install support files
for logrotate
On 1/28/06, Francesco Riosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doug Goldstein wrote:
How about the packages that don't even ask and just install logrotate
stuff? Like Apache, lighttpd, and mysql?
they should use it, MySQL will be updated when Marcelo make logrotate
uf global
Indeed, logrotate
Marcelo Góes wrote:
Indeed, logrotate functionality should be optional. Ebuilds that
install logrotate stuff without asking should be updated to use the
logrotate USE flag.
I'm making it a global USE flag if nobody complains.
You want people to recompile the whole package to get another text
Marcelo Góes wrote:
It seems there are some ebuilds with a logrotate USE flag:
snip
Perhaps it should be a global USE flag?
We have discussed this fairly recently[1] so I'll post the link to
save everyone the hassle.
[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-devw=2r=1s=logrotateq=b
Reposting since I don't think my last e-mail got through...
On 1/29/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
People who don't want it can set INSTALL_MASK. It should be installed by
default and not switchable with a USE flag.
If INSTALL_MASK is the correct way to prevent logrotate stuff
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:58:52 -0800 Donnie Berkholz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Marcelo Góes wrote:
| Indeed, logrotate functionality should be optional. Ebuilds that
| install logrotate stuff without asking should be updated to use the
| logrotate USE flag.
|
| I'm making it a global USE flag
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