Hi Rainer,

> Hi all,
> 
> thanks for the (on- and off-list) feedback. I count silence as
> agreement. So I will try to follow the advise down here. I'll change
> back to a single tarball, most probably with the next release.

Yeah, from my end I don't see much of a difference with how it's packaged your
end, since the packager responsible for making an RPM will need both tarballs
and two specs to make two RPM's anyway.

Regards,

Michael.

> Rainer
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:rsyslog-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Pantyukhin
> > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 10:38 AM
> > To: rsyslog-users
> > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] rsyslog 1.19.8 released
> > 
> > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:41:22PM +0200, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
> > > Is this the overall consensus on this list? If so, I'll revert
> > > the change in the next release. So if you don't like this,
> > > please comment now.
> > 
> > In source-based systems (like BSD ports, Gentoo Portage and many
> > others), it is a lot more logical two have separate tarballs, but
> > they have to be self-sufficient. The current ommysql tarball
> > should only need whatever rsyslog core installs to be built and
> > used. It should not require the core tarball.
> > 
> > If that's too difficult, it's OK to ship a single tarball with an
> > opportunity to build just the plugin (just ommysql as opposed to
> > rsyslog+ommysql).
> > 
> > If that's also difficult, the old behavior is OK, where a single
> > tarball can build either rsyslog or rsyslog+ommysql. From a
> > packager's point of view, the current (transitional?) behavior
> > does not add anything but a minor headache. I had to disable
> > mysql support in the FreeBSD port temporarily because I didn't
> > have time to arrange for it to be built properly in 1.19.8.
> > 
> > Thanks!
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