Re: Installed lilo 1:21.7-1 (i386 source)
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:34:44AM -0700, Edward Betts wrote:
> Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Is lilo really messing with logrotate in its preinst? If so, why?
> > Can't it wait till the postinst? And if it does wait till the
> > postinst, it doesn't need to Pre-Depend on it.
>
> I just looked at the source, and it does not look like lilo is using logrotate
> to rotate logs. It is rotating the files:
>
> /boot/boot.b.preserved, /boot/boot-menu.b.preserved, /boot/chain.b.preserved,
> /boot/os2_d.b.preserved, /boot/any_b.b.preserved, and /boot/any_d.b.preserved
>
> Is it okay to use logrotate like this? Should some other tool be used? I
> suppose that to understand better what is going on I need to investigate
> further.
Can't it just move them in the preinst and use logrotate on them in
the postinst?
Julian
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