[Mageia-dev] [RFC] rsyslog vs journalctl

Thu Feb 7 10:56:26 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and David Walser at 06/02/13 18:28 did gyre and gimble:
+> Colin Guthrie <mageia at ...> writes:
+>> Oh, for the avoidance of doubt, I don't think there is any argument that
+>> would suggest the removal from the repositories or obsoletion of rsyslog
+>> or syslog-ng etc.
+> 
+> I agree, and that's consistent with what you've said in the past.  I thought
+> it was odd that the idea of obsoleting them came up yesterday in the packager
+> meeting, but it did.  The main reason was wanting to know if rsyslog should
+> still be on the DVD, in case of users using it to upgrade from Mageia 2.
+> 
+> It may be the case that not upgrading that particular package during the DVD
+> upgrade won't *break* anything and it can just be upgraded after the system
+> is booted and urpmi sources are added, in which case it doesn't *need* to be
+> on the DVD.  Otherwise, we should make sure it's on there.
+
+What I guess we could to to avoid putting rsyslog on the physical media
+would be to put a versioned conflicts in the main systemd package with
+rsyslog and syslog-ng. Thus the old packages should be removed when
+upgrading (AIUI).
+
+Col
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