On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 01:38:57PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Steve Greenland writes: > > Not when the path is explicitly for the package's log files. How else is > > it supposed to know? Would you prefer that the apache purge did > > > find / -name 'access.log*' | xargs rm > > find $path -name 'access.log*' | xargs rm ; rmdir $path > > Remove any files that the package may have created and then attempt to > remove the directory. There's the default error.log, too. And I would imagine that it's not unheard of for filenames to change mid-stream -- an example of this has already been given upthread. If I like the name 'fuckups.log' for my error log, I use that -- and the package should leave it alone, because it's a local name. But then the package maintainer decides he likes that name too, and makes that the default error log name. Now, if I purge that new version of the package, my error log, which I thought was mine and local, gets removed, and I now have cause for anger. - Matt > -- > John Hasler > john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler) > Dancing Horse Hill > Elmwood, WI > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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