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On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:13:57 +0100 |
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Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 17 April 2014, at 2:32 pm, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> >> ... |
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> >> Do you seriously consider it up for debate whether or not it's a |
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> >> bug, when daily error messages are produced and emailed to the |
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> >> system admin? |
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> > That depends on whether you consider that to be the expected |
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> > behavior for the way it has been set up; the cause is already |
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> > known, wrong perms. |
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> Well, it seems to be the Gentoo devs that set it up this way. |
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> You're the expert - you tell me why this is happening. |
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Your found information and the post installation messages tell this: |
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"Traditionally mcelog was run as a cronjob, but this usage is |
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deprecated now. The modern way to run it is to start it at |
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boot up time and run it always as a daemon." |
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"A sample cronjob is installed into /etc/cron.daily |
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without executable bit (system service is the preferred method now)" |
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There is nothing extra for a non-maintainer to add to this. |
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> You haven't given me any explanation why this package is on a |
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> freshly-installed Gentoo system, you haven't told me in the Gentoo |
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> install docs that I need to configure this package, have you? |
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That is because you have installed it; and if you did install it, then |
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the useful post installation messages tell you this information. |
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To demonstrate that this is the case, app-admin/mcelog is ... |
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... not part of the current stage3 as revealed by its contents list; |
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$ grep app-admin/mcelog stage3-amd64-20140410.tar.bz2.CONTENTS |
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... not pulled in by another dependency as recorded in the database; |
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$ grep --include='*DEPEND' -rl app-admin/mcelog /var/db/pkg/ |
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... not pulled in through profiles and therefore not by the @system set |
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$ grep -r app-admin/mcelog /usr/portage/profiles/ |
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... and not listed as the dependency of any package in the Portage tree. |
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$ grep --include='*.ebuild' --exclude='mcelog-*' -r app-admin/mcelog /usr/portage/ |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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Gentoo Developer |
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E-mail address : TomWij@g.o |
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GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D |
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