From owner-freebsd-ports Sat May 19 14: 6: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from casimir.physics.purdue.edu (casimir.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.146.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 520C237B422 for ; Sat, 19 May 2001 14:06:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@physics.purdue.edu) Received: by casimir.physics.purdue.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2E65118A47; Sat, 19 May 2001 16:00:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 16:00:53 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Ernst de Haan , Will Andrews , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to deal with /var/log Message-ID: <20010519160052.L1198@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: Will Andrews , Ernst de Haan , ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010518171647.A3528@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> <20010518103850.W26877@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <20010519235639.B885@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <20010519235639.B885@ringworld.oblivion.bg>; from roam@orbitel.bg on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:56:40PM +0300 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.18 sparc64 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:56:40PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Just another datapoint: IMNSHO, log files should NOT be removed > automatically when deinstalling a package/port. Consider the case > of a port being upgraded on a production server - well, call me > paranoid, but I would certainly like to keep my logfiles across > the upgrade :) (just think about statistics and pretty, colorful > pie-charts and bargraphs for the marketing dudes.. eeewwww ;) Yes, that is your HO, and not everyone has the same attitude about how packages should handle log files. Which is why I say we don't have the proper mechanisms to handle this kind of thing. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message