Hi, On Dienstag, 19. August 2014, Matt Taggart wrote: > Sorry, that should have been _or_, I care about anything that gets created > in /var/log. ah :) > I also tried that first and got the same result and then realized that > most packages create their log files at runtime. That's why I > thought of piuparts because it actually installs and runs the packages. > > Looking at piuparts.py, it looks like ignored_files and ignored_patterns > are used to ignore a lot (but not all) of /var/log things. yeah, exactly. parsing a Packages file, looping through all packages and installing them in some chroot is rather trivial though.... but thats also not exactly what piuparts does, not even in master-slave mode :) but then, some packages will only create logfiles when they are run, and you probably want to use policy-rc.d to prevent that from happening, or maybe not... cheers, Holger
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