[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#542621: aide: new feature: ignore files changed by system updates

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
Sun Aug 30 11:22:53 UTC 2009


On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 07:44:30PM +0200, Hannes von Haugwitz wrote:
> I'd like to see such a feature in aide package.
> 
> The attached patch improves your patch insofar as it really filters
> the aide run log instead of just concatenating the filtered
> and non-filtered output. Additionally I added a new option to also
> filter changed files from new packages.

And your patch doesn't completely kill the noise feature, which is
something I'd hate to lose. On the other hand, the new code has like
six temporary files (I actually stopped counting at some point), and
is rather complex for the daily cron job.

I am not yet convinced whether this is desireable, and I'd probably
prefer the method of re-running aide after doing system updates.

Is it really necessary to have a temp file orgy like this, or is this
maybe the point where the shell script should be rewritten in a "real"
programming language?

Greetings
Marc

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