Logcheck devel - May 2006 - logcheck on SUSE Linux - Debian-specifics

Greetings,

it's good to see someone's taken responsibility to maintain logcheck.

However, installing logcheck on SUSE Linux 10.0 turns out to be a major PITA.

1. SUSE doesn't have lockfile-progs or other packages providing these
programs.

2. SUSE doesn't have run-parts either.

While I made my own RPMs to provide all this stuff, it would be
good to see future logcheck versions that aren't using debian-specific
programs and constrain themselves to using POSIX utilities, just like the
older versions did -- even LSB is too narrow a standard. logcheck is useful
on other systems than Debian, too.

Thanks a lot for your consideration.

Kind regards,
Matthias Andree

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:08:23PM +0200, Matthias Andree
wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> it's good to see someone's taken responsibility to maintain
logcheck.
> 
> However, installing logcheck on SUSE Linux 10.0 turns out to be a major
PITA.
> 
> 1. SUSE doesn't have lockfile-progs or other packages providing these
programs.
> 
> 2. SUSE doesn't have run-parts either.
afaik even busybox provides run-parts so your second point makes me
wonder.
 
> While I made my own RPMs to provide all this stuff, it would be
> good to see future logcheck versions that aren't using debian-specific
> programs and constrain themselves to using POSIX utilities, just like the
> older versions did -- even LSB is too narrow a standard. logcheck is useful
> on other systems than Debian, too.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your consideration.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Matthias Andree
could you please post your rpm.spec so that it can be shared for others?

regards

-- 
maks

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:08:23PM +0200, Matthias Andree muttered these
words:
> While I made my own RPMs to provide all this stuff, it would be
> good to see future logcheck versions that aren't using debian-specific
> programs and constrain themselves to using POSIX utilities, just like the
> older versions did -- even LSB is too narrow a standard. logcheck is useful
> on other systems than Debian, too.
While I agree on the above in principal, it's important to understand
that we are all motivated differently, and most of the folks on this 
list are motivated to work on Debian.

That doesn't mean that there would be resistance to making logcheck more
portable, it just means that someone motivated to do so will need to do
the work, (with the obvious caveat that it doesn't create any
regressions, make things unnecessarily complex, etc).

Contributions are always welcome.

Regards,

-- 
Eric Evans
eevans at sym-link.com
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