On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:50:33AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 02:34:43PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Do we actually have some packages using Joseph's logrotate.deb yet, btw? It
> > seems a little premature to ammend policy before the package has undergone
> > much testing.
> The package is considered production quality by Redhat (not that this
> means ANYTHING...) I've locally converted exim, apache, and a couple
> other things to it. Seems to work fine.
Well, I'd presume it's the rpm that RedHat consider production quality,
not the .deb, and packaging errors do occur every now and then.
Eh, I guess I'm just more of the mindset of `make sure it works then
adapt policy' than `policy must always be followed'.
> Would like to hear about other people's experiences with it of course.
> The issue is that uploading packages that use it would mean uploading
> packages that violate current log rotation policy. =p
All the packages I upload violate policy. Most are missing manpages,
and probably other things. Policy's an ideal, not a set of 101
commandments. IMO, etc.
In any case, policy says that "the best way to do this is to use
`savelog'", not that that's the only way.
Have there been enough seconds yet and all? Is there anything holding this
up (apart from the existing `<package>.log' wording)?
Cheers,
aj
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