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On Friday 01 February 2008, Natanael Copa wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 18:46 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 31 January 2008, Natanael Copa wrote: |
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> > > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 12:35 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> > > > 080128 Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > > > > now that the mktemp binary has been moved out of debianutils |
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> > > > > and integrated straight into coreutils, |
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> > > > > perhaps it's time to ask how important this package is to everyone. |
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> > > > > current debianutils is part of "system" and provides: |
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> > > > > - installkernel |
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> > > > > - run-parts |
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> > > > > - tempfile |
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> > > > > - savelog |
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> > > > > - mkboot |
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> > > > > do people consider these things critical ? |
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> > > > > i dont know the last time i personally needed/wanted any of these |
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> > > > > ... |
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> > > > |
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> > > > 'equery d debianutils' gives me |
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> > > > |
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> > > > app-admin/sysklogd-1.4.2_pre20061230 (sys-apps/debianutils) |
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> > > > app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.3-r1 (userland_GNU? |
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> > > > sys-apps/debianutils) sys-apps/mktemp-1.5 |
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> > > > (>=sys-apps/debianutils-2.16.2) |
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> > > > |
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> > > > The 2nd cb ignored, but the others seem important. |
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> > > > I have Mktemp-1.5 installed, so what do you mean by your lines 1-2 ? |
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> > > > Sysklogd seems to be an important pkg too. |
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> > > |
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> > > savelog is used here to rotate logs from a cron job. I had a user |
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> > > rewriting the whole script the other week so it works without either |
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> > > perl or debianutils. (he replaced 80 lines perl with 7 lines POSIX |
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> > > shell code using sed, awk) |
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> > > |
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> > > I can create a bug on this so we get rid of both perl and debianutils |
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> > > dependency for app-admin/sysklogd. (great for embedded) |
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> > |
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> > i dont quite follow ... savelog is already a POSIX script and i dont see |
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> > it executing perl ... |
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> The /etc/cron.daily/syslog.cron executes both savelog |
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> and /usr/sbin/syslogd-listfiles - which is a perl script. |
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oh, so you're looking to replace a script syslog provides rather than the |
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savelog script |
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sure, i'd open a bug enhancement request on the topic |
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-mike |
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