Re: unowned directory problem with /etc/logrotate.d

[Hans de Goede <j w r degoede hhs nl>]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Ven 24 novembre 2006 11:15, Hans de Goede a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Many packages drop config files for logrotate in /etc/logrotate.d. without
> > requiring logrotate, which is the owner of
> > /etc/logrotate.d, thus potentially leading to an unowned /etc/logrotate.d
> > for users who don't want logrotate and thus remove it.
> >
> > I see 2 solutions for this:
> > 1) Add "Requires: logrotate" to all packages which put files in
> > /etc/logrotate.d. IMHO this is not good as the user should be able
> >    to choose if he wants logrotate or not.
> > 2) Add /etc/logrotate.d to the filesystem package, this is my preferred
> > solution.
>
> 3. add Requires: /etc/logrotate.d to /etc/logrotate.d users

Which effectivly boils down to 1) except that it causes yum to take an extra 5-10 minutes to download file lists for all enabled repos.
(on a 1 mbit link) file based dependencies usually are not the answer!

Regards,

Hans