This one time, at band camp, Sven Riedel said: > Hi, > > > If a file in /etc/ is shipped in the package (i.e., not created or > > copied in the postinstall script) then it will be managed by dpkg, and > > the above command line arguments will work. The logrotate file is > > created by the postinst script, and conffile handling is done > > with ucf. > > Ok, I wasn't aware of that. Why is the logrotate file not part of the > package, but created by postinst instead?
The LogFile configuration option is optional - many people log to syslog instead, in which case a logrotate file is pointless (and makes for needless error reports). > > Since there is currently no way for ucf to know anything about dpkg's > > command line, I'm afraid this just isn't going to work for now. > > Can you document this situation in README.Debian with a pointer to > conf_force_conffold in /etc/ucf.conf? This behaviour was entirely > unexpected for me. Especially in a package such as this, which is > prone to be automatically installed by some distribution system, it can > lead to frustration on the part of the admin trying to make the > system shut up and just do it :) Er, I really am not a ucf expert, so something along the lines of: All ClamAV configuration files (in other words, all files under /etc/) are handled by ucf, as they are dynamically generated. If you want to affect ucf's behavior with regard to conffile handling, please see /etc/ucf.conf or ucf(1). Would that do? > > I am not sure that this is a bug, since the files in question aren't > > managed by dpkg, but it's up to you if you want to keep it > > open or not. > > Well, the ultimate cause is different than what I thought it was, but > the behaviour of the package isn't what one would expect. If it's ok > with you, I'd like to move this bugreport to the priority "Wishlist" > to the effect of having /etc/logrotate.d/clamav-daemon being > handled by dpkg. > OTOH, if there are reasons for not doing that, and > the situation is documented, I see no reason to keep this bug report > open. Let me know if the explanations and the suggested addendum to README.Debian satisfy you. Take care, and thanks, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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