unowned directory problem with /etc/logrotate.d

[Hans de Goede]

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
> 

Which effectivly boils down to 1) except that it causes yum to take an extra 5-10 minutes to download file lists for all enabled repos.
(on a 1 mbit link) file based dependencies usually are not the answer!

Regards,

Hans