Your message dated Mon, 6 Jun 2016 03:32:18 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#773425: please increase default logrotate duration for
/var/log/dpkg.log
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regarding please increase default logrotate duration for /var/log/dpkg.log
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.17.21
Severity: normal
The default logrotate settings for /var/log/dpkg.log (from
/etc/logrotate.d/dpkg) have "monthly 12", which grants a 1-year long history of
dpkg operations.
It would be desirable to have a longer history than that by default, ideally a
*complete* history, dating back to the original installation.
Considering how small dpkg.log usually is in comparison to other log files in
/var/log, doing so looks feasible. The disk usage would cap at few megabytes
for routinely updated stable machines over a 10-year period.
If you don't want to go unlimited history, bumping to a max of 10 years (maybe
increasing rotation period as well to 1 year) would be nice. Anything in
between would be nicer tha a 1-year long history only.
Thanks for considering!
Cheers.
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On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 19:31:47 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 10:12:27 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > Package: dpkg
> > Version: 1.17.21
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > The default logrotate settings for /var/log/dpkg.log (from
> > /etc/logrotate.d/dpkg) have "monthly 12", which grants a 1-year long
> > history of
> > dpkg operations.
> >
> > It would be desirable to have a longer history than that by default,
> > ideally a
> > *complete* history, dating back to the original installation.
>
> Given that the default logrotate config sets both weekly and rotate, not
> setting the intervals will make the entries use the defaults instead of
> unlimited, and I don't see a way to reset those values.
>
> > Considering how small dpkg.log usually is in comparison to other log files
> > in
> > /var/log, doing so looks feasible. The disk usage would cap at few megabytes
> > for routinely updated stable machines over a 10-year period.
> >
> > If you don't want to go unlimited history, bumping to a max of 10 years
> > (maybe
> > increasing rotation period as well to 1 year) would be nice. Anything in
> > between would be nicer tha a 1-year long history only.
>
> This would diverge greatly from other log files, some of which might
> also be very tiny on normal installations. I also discussed this briefly
> with the apt maintainers and they didn't see the point in changing the
> apt log settings to have unified values across package manager software.
> And lastly if not for simple historical reasons, such long term data
> tends to be useless for stuff like bug tracking or reporting. Given all
> the above, I'm rather uncomfortable with changing the defaults
>
> I think that if something like this needs to be done, it needs to be
> within a wider discussion on the default log rotation settings.
> Otherwise I'm inclined to just close this request.
And closing now.
Regards,
Guillem
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