[Libguestfs] [PATCH] appliance: Exclude everything in /var/log/* from the appliance (RHBZ#1239154).

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 11:53:49AM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> In data giovedì 9 luglio 2015 09:58:45, Richard W.M. Jones ha scritto:
> > ---
> >  appliance/excludefiles.in | 7 +------
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/appliance/excludefiles.in b/appliance/excludefiles.in
> > index 9a48db7..c53a913 100644
> > --- a/appliance/excludefiles.in
> > +++ b/appliance/excludefiles.in
> > @@ -32,12 +32,7 @@ dnl The right kernel modules are added back by supermin.
> >  -/usr/share/i18n/*
> >  -/usr/share/pkgconfig/*
> >  
> > --/var/log/*.log*
> > --/var/log/cron*
> > --/var/log/lastlog*
> > --/var/log/messages*
> > --/var/log/secure*
> > --/var/log/syslog*
> > +-/var/log/*
> >  
> >  dnl For Debian:
> >  -/usr/share/lintian/*
> 
> LGTM.
> 
> 5 files less in the appliance on f21, and 1 file less on Debian/testing.

I'm worried this will break something, but I'm not sure what.

It completely removes everything in /var/log including subdirectories,
and therefore any program which we might run that expects to write to
a pre-created /var/log/<somedir>/ may fail.

Unfortunately supermin currently has no way to just exclude files, and
in the actual case I'm looking at we need to remove large files in
subdirectories too.

Rich.

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