Bug 374287 – sys-apps/portage needs to update it's logrotate file

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2011-07-06 22:50:13 UTC]

As of logrotate-3.8.0, there is a new option in conf files to allow rotating of files in parent directories that are writable by a group other than group root.  Since elog-save-summary rotates a files that is writable by group portage, it needs to be modified or logrotate-3.8.0 will refuse to rotate it.  The following line needs to be added:

su portage portage

This makes the actual rotation run as user/group portage.

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2011-07-07 04:43:54 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> su portage portage

I don't see any mention of this option in the logrotate-3.7.9 man page. Do you know if older versions support it? If not, I suppose that we can use has_version to conditionally apply a patch.

[Comment 2 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2011-07-07 13:19:50 UTC]

Good question.  2.7.9 will print a warning and ignore the line, but still rotate the file.

Since 2.8.0 is a security update, it's likely to go stable soon, and 2.7.9 will be removed, so it won't be an issue for very long, I believe.

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2011-07-07 17:45:30 UTC]

Thanks, this is fixed in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=b6581552affa0fa8012447a683322917a031c244

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2011-07-13 00:28:15 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.10.5 and 2.2.0_alpha44.

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2011-08-06 23:45:01 UTC]

*** Bug 378037 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Zac Medico 2011-08-09 10:48:49 UTC]

*** Bug 378451 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***