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Date:      Sun, 22 Dec 2013 15:08:10 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Frank Seltzer <frank_s@bellsouth.net>
Cc:        dt71@gmx.com, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Subject:   Re: PACKAGESITE spam
Message-ID:  <20131222140810.GD59524@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1312220840400.1072@Ace.nina.org>
References:  <52B5DF8C.5050204@gmx.com> <20131221200538.GA60827@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1312220840400.1072@Ace.nina.org>

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On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 09:00:42AM -0500, Frank Seltzer wrote:
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> On Sat, 21 Dec 2013, Steve Kargl wrote:
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> > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 07:35:56PM +0100, dt71@gmx.com wrote:
> >> I've just installed a very recent -CURRENT, and now I'm performing a=
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> >> big portupgrade procedure. I get the following message spammed a lot:
> >>
> >> pkg: PACKAGESITE in pkg.conf is deprecated. Please create a repository=
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> >> configuration file
> >
> > Yeah, I noticed that spam along with the spam that is being
> > spewed to /var/log/messaage, e.g.,
> >
> > Dec 21 10:27:28 laptop-kargl pkg-static: libwpg-0.2.2 installed
> > Dec 21 10:31:15 laptop-kargl pkg-static: libcdr-0.0.14 installed
> > Dec 21 10:32:35 laptop-kargl pkg-static: openjpeg-1.5.0_2 installed
> > Dec 21 10:38:33 laptop-kargl pkg-static: poppler-data-0.4.6 installed
> > Dec 21 10:39:48 laptop-kargl pkg-static: poppler-0.22.2 installed
> > Dec 21 10:40:32 laptop-kargl pkg-static: ilmbase-2.1.0 installed
> > Dec 21 10:44:28 laptop-kargl pkg-static: OpenEXR-2.1.0_1 installed
> > Dec 21 10:47:36 laptop-kargl pkg-static: vigra-1.9.0_4 installed
> > Dec 21 10:51:00 laptop-kargl pkg-static: lp_solve-5.5.2.0 installed
> >
> > Can you (portmgr) please mute these messages?
> >
> > --=20
> > Steve
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> This received several responses.
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> Greg Rivers said:
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> Do you really feel that strongly about it?  Having a record of changes to
> the system has always seemed like a feature to me...
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> Baptiste Daroussin said:
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> this has been done and activated for reason, first for lot of companies,=
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> it is important (PCI DSS requirement for example), secondly I receive ton=
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> of request to actiavte on by default while you are the first to request i=
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> off by default
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> Adrian Chadd said:
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> The point is that some people like an audit trail. The audit trail for
> some people involves remote logging of syslog messages to a log host.
> This would include when packages are installed.
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> My thought:
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> Then why can't the messages about installed ports have it's own log file=
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> rather than /var/log/messages?
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> As for this message:
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> pkg: PACKAGESITE in pkg.conf is deprecated. Please create a repository=20
> configuration file
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> Glen Barber replied:
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> echo 'SYSLOG: no' >> /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf
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> And Shane Ambler:
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> now we can turn it off which I don't think we could before.
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> Me again:
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> Where is this documented?
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> /root # man pkg.conf
> No manual entry for pkg.conf

pkg.conf man pages comes with pkg itself, just bootstrap it and you will ge=
t the
manpage :)

regards,
Bapt

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