[Logcheck-devel] logcheck on SUSE Linux - Debian-specifics

[maximilian attems]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:08:23PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> it's good to see someone's taken responsibility to maintain logcheck.
> 
> However, installing logcheck on SUSE Linux 10.0 turns out to be a major PITA.
> 
> 1. SUSE doesn't have lockfile-progs or other packages providing these programs.
> 
> 2. SUSE doesn't have run-parts either.

afaik even busybox provides run-parts so your second point makes me
wonder.
 
> While I made my own RPMs to provide all this stuff, it would be
> good to see future logcheck versions that aren't using debian-specific
> programs and constrain themselves to using POSIX utilities, just like the
> older versions did -- even LSB is too narrow a standard. logcheck is useful
> on other systems than Debian, too.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your consideration.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Matthias Andree

could you please post your rpm.spec so that it can be shared for others?

regards

-- 
maks