unowned directory problem with /etc/logrotate.d

[Orion Poplawski]

Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> 
> So since we're already discussing this, what if all packages that put 
> stuff in logrotate.d, do so from a sub-package... httpd-logrotate (or 
> something)... The -logrotate sub packages should require logrotate and 
> of-course the main package (httpd in this case). Users can remove 
> logrotate and with it, all the -logrotate subpackages from cups, httpd 
> and the rest, but the software will still install and run just fine.
> This method has the added benefit of giving us a cleaner way to provide 
> log-management for everything, based on an entirely different 
> log-management tool. Put <XXrotatelogsXX> in extras and provide a 
> http-<XXrotatelogsXX> package and all is good.

Interesting idea, but the problem is that you would want the -logrotate 
packages installed by default to prevent the normal use case from 
filling /var, and I'm not sure this is possible at the moment.

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