Bug 1773494

Summary:	syslog-ng 3.23.1-1.el8: file conflicts with RHEL 8 rsyslog
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	interspace <admin>
Component:	rsyslog	Assignee:	Jiří Vymazal <jvymazal>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	dapospis, jvymazal, peter, rmeggins
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Release:	8.0
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Description interspace 2019-11-18 09:52:33 UTC

Description of problem:
The logrotate file shipped in the RHEL 8 rsyslog package was modified.
This modification caused file conflicts with the EPEL8 syslog-ng package.


How reproducible:

yum install syslog-ng
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:18 ago on Mon 18 Nov 2019 11:41:57 IST.
Dependencies resolved.
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 Package                                    Arch                                    Version                                        Repository                                  Size
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Installing:
 syslog-ng                                  x86_64                                  3.23.1-1.el8                                   epel                                       853 k
Installing dependencies:
 libnet                                     x86_64                                  1.1.6-15.el8                                   AppStream                                   67 k
 ivykis                                     x86_64                                  0.42.4-2.el8                                   epel                                        47 k

Transaction Summary
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Install  3 Packages

Total download size: 967 k
Installed size: 3.6 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/3): libnet-1.1.6-15.el8.x86_64.rpm                                                                                                                66 kB/s |  67 kB     00:01    
(2/3): ivykis-0.42.4-2.el8.x86_64.rpm                                                                                                                46 kB/s |  47 kB     00:01    
(3/3): syslog-ng-3.23.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm                                                                                                            644 kB/s | 853 kB     00:01    
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Total                                                                                                                                               225 kB/s | 967 kB     00:04     
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful transaction.
You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'.
Error: Transaction check error:
  file /etc/logrotate.d/syslog from install of syslog-ng-3.23.1-1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package rsyslog-8.37.0-9.el8.x86_64

Error Summary
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Actual results:

Error: Transaction check error:
  file /etc/logrotate.d/syslog from install of syslog-ng-3.23.1-1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with file from package rsyslog-8.37.0-9.el8.x86_64


Expected results:

To install successfully 

Additional info:

Comment 3 Jiří Vymazal 2019-12-03 08:48:32 UTC

Thank you for reporting this.

Closing this now as renaming the file could cause backwards compatibility problems for some users and for those who wish use more log daemons simultaneously there is easy workaround in renaming the file themselves before installation of other log packages. If you want you can clone this bug for EPEL and ask syslog-ng maintainer to rename their file, as rsyslog needs to retain this file from support perspective (syslog-ng is not officially supported in RHEL).

Comment 4 Peter Czanik 2020-07-05 14:06:31 UTC

See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1802165

I kept the name for lograte in the syslog-ng pacage, but made it a subpackage conflicting with rsyslog. This way package management is happy, those who depend on the current naming are happy, and in case of two syslog applicactions you need to manually configure logrotate anyway.

It should reach EPEL soon (or about 1.5 weeks, if nobody gives karma)