198901 2007-11-12 09:47 0000 [TRACKER] Nuking logrotate use flag 2009-02-08 18:31:36 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Ebuilds 2007.0 All Linux NEW Tracker P2 normal --- 258173 258174 258176 258178 258180 258181 258182 258186 258187 258188 134491 1 jakub@gentoo.org qa@gentoo.org dertobi123@gentoo.org jakub@gentoo.org 2007-11-12 09:47:52 0000 Basically same reasons as in Bug 158114 Comment #0 apply here... Having a use flag for installing one plaintext file doesn't make sense. - ebuilds don't handle this consistently (some just use this flag for doins/newins a script to /etc/logrotate.d, some add app-admin/logrotate dependency, some install the scripts unconditionally) - users can use INSTALL_MASK if diskspace is an issue for them (extremely unlikely), plus the installed scripts have no effect until you install logrotate anyway, so if you don't want this functionality, just don't install it, if you do, emerge alogrotate and you don't have to care about anything else and no need to re-emerge anything). (BTW, the usage of this flag in net-proxy/squid really is special, don't quite understand why not just use the rotate functionality squid itself has.) So, please nuke the use flag and install the stuff unconditionally. Thanks app-antivirus/clamav-0.91 app-antivirus/clamav-0.91.1 app-antivirus/clamav-0.91.2 app-antivirus/clamav-0.92_rc2 app-backup/bacula-2.0.3 app-backup/bacula-2.2.4 app-backup/bacula-2.2.5 app-backup/bacula-2.2.5-r1 mail-filter/dspam-3.8.0-r6 mail-filter/spamassassin-fuzzyocr-3.5.1 mail-filter/spamassassin-fuzzyocr-3.5.1-r1 net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.5-r3 net-mail/mailgraph-1.13 net-mail/mailgraph-1.14 net-proxy/squid-2.6.16 net-proxy/squid-3.0_rc1 sys-apps/qingy-0.9.6-r1 sys-cluster/vzctl-3.0.14 sys-cluster/vzctl-3.0.16 sys-cluster/vzctl-3.0.18 sys-cluster/vzctl-3.0.18-r1 sys-power/acpid-1.0.4-r5 sys-power/hibernate-script-1.95-r2 sys-power/hibernate-script-1.95-r3 sys-power/hibernate-script-1.96 sys-power/hibernate-script-1.96-r1 sys-power/hibernate-script-1.97-r1 www-servers/ocsigen-0.99.2 www-servers/ocsigen-0.99.3 mrness@gentoo.org 2007-11-12 10:13:51 0000 Let me reiterate my position on squid's logrotate flag. This flag selects the mode in which log rotation is performed: 1) native log rotation support (a cron script that calls squid -k rotate) 2) through logrotate program I don't see how this could be done in any other way than having a USE flag for it. mail-filter/dspam-3.8.0-r6 has been removed (-r7 no longer has logrotate USE flag). jakub@gentoo.org 2007-11-12 10:25:54 0000 (In reply to comment #1) Thanks for clarifying. This bug is about nuking the flag in ebuilds where it does nothing else but installing a logrotate script (and adding a optional dependency). The squid usage looks perfectly valid. alonbl@gentoo.org 2007-11-12 10:42:14 0000 hibernate-script done. aballier@gentoo.org 2007-11-12 12:58:20 0000 ocsigen done ticho@gentoo.org 2007-11-14 19:35:12 0000 clamav and mailgraph done. The flag usage in spamassassin-fuzzyocr is a bit less trivial, as it also decides on whether to enable logging, so I will leave it to maintainers (tomk + chutzpah) to modify this package. rane@gentoo.org 2008-10-30 16:46:43 0000 Reassigning since Jakub has left Gentoo. bangert@gentoo.org 2009-02-08 18:23:12 0000 reworking this into a TRACKER bug. individual bugs are being filed. removing everybody from CC - please re-add yourself if you want to. thanks