[DRE-maint] Bug#814476: gitlab writes into /usr/share/gitlab during operation
Antonio Terceiro
terceiro at debian.org
Fri Feb 12 12:14:37 UTC 2016
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 12:36:09AM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> Package: gitlab
> Version: 8.4.3+dfsg-3
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 9.1.1
>
> Hi,
>
> as per Debian policy §9.1.1, packages must comply with the FHS 2.3 but
> gitlab is writing log files to /usr/share/gitlab/log/ which violates
> chapter 4 of the FHS. Quote:
>
> "/usr is the second major section of the filesystem. /usr is shareable,
> read-only data. That means that /usr should be shareable between various
> FHS-compliant hosts and must not be written to. Any information that is
> host-specific or varies with time is stored elsewhere."
>
> this requirement is currently violated by gitlab.
>
> No wonder I couldn't figure out where the log files were :D
>
> Log files should go into /var/log/gitlab
/usr/share/gitlab/log should be a symlink to /var/log/gitlab
--
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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