[CentOS-devel] yum-3.2.8 for Centos 4 backport, part II.

Sat Jan 30 14:58:54 UTC 2010
Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>

On 01/29/2010 06:31 PM, James Antill wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 11:00 +0200, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>   
>> David Hrbáč wrote:
>>     
>
>   
>>> I'll remove the
>>> 'yearly' from /etc/logrotate.d/yum.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I think that rotating yearly in this context is overengineered, anyway. 
>> I use a size limit.
>>     
>
>  There is a size limit, the reason there's a "yearly" there too is for:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/174969
>     [Default logrotate config for yum produces wrong logwatch output]
>   
    Mind that the bug has fixes for newer logrotate versions. The 
version included in Centos 4 is logrotate-3.7.1 and it does not 
understand the "yearly" keyword, hence the solution from 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=174969#c8 cannot be applied.