Bug 484388

Summary:	app-admin/newsyslog - fix the package description to clarify it is a log rotater and not a logger itself
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Martin Mokrejš <mmokrejs>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jer
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Martin Mokrejš 2013-09-09 20:37:15 UTC

Seems I am not the only one who got fooled by the silly package description (bug #43684).

Today it was mentioned like a syslog-ng alternative in the installation handbook but it is gone now. ;-) I can still see in Google's cache, though.

If you will re-introduce it into the installation handbook please explain what is user supposed to do after emerging (hint: add it into a crontab file). Thank you.

Comment 1 Martin Mokrejš 2013-09-09 20:49:21 UTC

And please add an example /etc/newsyslog.conf, as it is mentioned in manpage as the default filename

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-09-10 14:23:32 UTC

"An enhanced version of newsyslog originally written by Theodore Ts'o"

I agree that this is hardly a proper package description, especially since this newsyslog shares the name of the original one, and gives no clue about the purpose of either.

Let's go with this instead:

"[...] is a highly configurable program for managing and archiving log files."[1]


[1] http://www.weird.com/~woods/projects/newsyslog.html

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-09-10 14:24:53 UTC

--- ./ChangeLog
+++ ./ChangeLog
@@ -2 +2 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
+# Copyright 1999-2013 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
@@ -4,0 +5,3 @@
+  10 Sep 2013; Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> newsyslog-1.1.ebuild:
+  Set DESCRIPTION to something descriptive by Martin Mokrejš (bug #484388).
+