[Piuparts-devel] Bug#566597: Bug#566597: what bugs to file?

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Evgeni,

On Sonntag, 28. Februar 2010, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 05:30:26PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > I'm wondering what bugs to file about issues such as
> > http://piuparts.debian.org/lenny2squeeze/fail/rinetd_0.62-5.1.log - IMO
> > thats pretty common and usually, if the logfile has been created which i
> > think happens most of the time, not a problem. the logfile get rotated
> > away and all is fine. or?
> Well, the logfile gets rotated to foo.0, then foo.1.gz, foo.2.gz, blah,
> blah and then removed. Now we have no logfiles left, and logrotate will
> barf (again).

Are you sure? Doesnt logrotate recreate the logfile but empty?

> The problem is (which I did not think about when discussing the issue
> with you in MG and while writing the patches): how does one tell
> logrotate that it should not execute a rule, because the package is
> removed?

Missing feature in logrotate? There is an option to not complain when no 
logfile exists, but I think it would be wrong to include this in every 
logrotate file.

> Evgeni, slightly puzzled and too tired to think further :(

:) No worries, we have time to fix this :)


cheers,
	Holger

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