[oe] All the syslogs

Koen Kooi k.kooi at student.utwente.nl
Thu May 6 06:13:53 UTC 2010


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On 06-05-10 08:04, Steffen Sledz wrote:
> Since i added the recipe for rsyslog we have three different
> syslog implemenations in OE: (busybox-)syslog, syslog-ng, and
> rsyslog.
> 
> At the moment syslog-ng and rsyslog have pkg_postinst and pkg_postrm
> stages which use update-rc.d to deinstall/reinstall init.d links
> for (busybox-)syslog which is default.
> 
> This seems to be a bad hack for me. I believe there must be better
> solutions for this situation. But I'm not sure which is the preferred.
> Is this a case for alternatives? Or something like
> DISTRO_SYSLOG_DAEMON? Or something else?

DISTRO_* is the wrong namespace for that, it's a per-image choice. You
could have a look at using u-a to changing initscripts and binaries.

regards,

Koen
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