FS#53060 - Add logrotate for pacman.log

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Radu Potop (wooptoo) - Thursday, 23 February 2017, 09:21 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 23 February 2017, 13:43 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Hi everyone,
A logrotate config file for pacman.log would be handy since it tends to grow quite quickly.
Below is the one which I use - which rotates logs yearly:

/var/log/pacman.log {
yearly
missingok
notifempty
create
compress
}
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Thursday, 23 February 2017, 13:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 23 February 2017, 13:43 GMT
In six years, mine has hit an absolutely massive 3Mb... And I spend time installing/removing/reinstalling while testing during pacman development.

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