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Bug 37084 - sysstat update removes directory /var/log/sa
Summary: sysstat update removes directory /var/log/sa
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Martin Holzer (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2004-01-03 02:58 UTC by Toralf Förster
Modified: 2004-01-03 03:37 UTC (History)
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Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev 2004-01-03 02:58:59 UTC
I did an:
# emerge -u app-admin/sysstat

During emerge I got:
...
--- /usr/lib/
--- /usr/lib/sa/
>>> /usr/lib/sa/sadc
>>> /usr/lib/sa/sa1
>>> /usr/lib/sa/sa2
--- /var/
--- /var/log/
>>> /var/log/sa/

>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
 * Caching service dependencies...                                                                                            [ ok ]
>>> app-admin/sysstat-5.0.0 merged.

 app-admin/sysstat
    selected: 4.0.7
   protected: 5.0.0
     omitted: none

>>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
>>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed.

...
--- !mtime obj /usr/bin/mpstat
--- !mtime obj /usr/bin/iostat
<<<        dir /var/log/sa
<<<        dir /usr/share/doc/sysstat-4.0.7
--- !empty dir /var/log
--- !empty dir /var
--- !empty dir /usr/share/man/man8
...


Now I got an error :
# sar -r -n DEV
Cannot open /var/log/sa/sa03: No such file or directory
nhh221 ~


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge sysstat
2. updae sysstat
3.



# emerge info 
Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 
2.4.23-grsec-1.9.13) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.23-grsec-1.9.13 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="X apache2 apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gd gdbm gif 
gpm gtk2 imlib innodb java jbig jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod 
motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png 
python qt quicktime readline sdl slang slp snmp spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff 
truetype usb wmf x86 xml2 xv zlib linguas_de"
Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-01-03 03:37:03 UTC
fixed in cvs