Thursday, April 29, 2021

Re: eventlog vs. syslog-ng eventlog

Yes retiring the separate port makes sense.

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Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting.
On 29 April 2021 02:36:03 Todd C. Miller <millert@openbsd.org> wrote:

> Our sysutils/syslog-ng port uses the libevtlog.so from the
> sysutils/eventlog port instead of the version shipped with syslog-ng.
>
> However, eventlog doesn't seem to be developed outside of syslog-ng
> anymore. The last commit to https://github.com/balabit/eventlog
> was in 2015 and the source shipped with syslog-ng has added APIs
> not present in our port.
>
> Is it time to retire the eventlog port and just have syslog-ng use
> the bundled copy or would it be worth patching the port to support
> the APIs required by newer syslog-ng? My ultimate goal is to update
> the syslog-ng port (mostly done) but this is standing in my way.
>
> As far as I can tell the only other port that depends on eventlog
> is syslog-ng itself.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> - todd

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