[Pkg-clamav-devel] LogRotate, create user and the option in the config

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi,

On 04.04.2014 13:36, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2014-03-26 23:07:17 [+0100], Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>> I think the whole debconf thingy got a little out of hand. Almost every
>> option in the config file can be changed. As you say, it adds complexity
>> atm. Maybe too much since we are now busy to get it bug free.
>>
>> I do get a little anxious if I want to change one option and have to
>> click my self carefully through the options so I don't get press enter
>> too often… That is maybe my own problem here. I don't use this on my
>> servers, just now for testing.
>> Anyway. What do we gain here exactly? What is the advantage of using debconf
>> for every config item over giving a sane default config with a comment over
>> each option?

One advantage of using debconf is that the templates can get translated.

One can use 'dpkg-reconfigure -pmedium clamav-base' to only see 
important options.
One can also directly change the options in the .conf files without 
going through dpkg-reconfigure.

>> I understand that for things like LogRotate it is pleasant that the logrotate.d
>> file is automaticly created with the proper user for instance. However
>> this isn't working perfectly atm and I didn't find other example. The
>> other options seem to written to the config file as-is.
>>
>> Looking at apache, nginx, exim for instance they all ship a default
>> config which works and leave it up to the user to deal with it. Exim has
>> a few questions, true, but they mostly compare to what freshclam asks
>> and are way less compared to `base'. unbound gives a config file with a
>> lot of comments next to each option. That is what _I_ like.
 >>
>> Said that I wouldn't mind if we drop the LogRotate option(s). I wouldn't
>> even mind if we drop them all. Well. freshclam has the usefull question
>> where you can choose between daemon, cron, and so on. I consider this
>> usefull.

I wouldn't mind if clamav only had configuration files, but adding 
decent comments to the config files is a good idea anyway.

Best regards,
Andreas