[Mageia-dev] [RFC] rsyslog vs journalctl

[Colin Guthrie]

'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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