[Bug 662312] Re: Cannot handle spaces in compressoptions

[Bela Lubkin]

Testing on saucy, problem no longer exists.  This makes sense as it
contains logrotate 3.8.3; ability to have spaces in compressoptions was
patched in as of debian package version 3.8.1-5.

I tried installing the trusty build of logrotate on precise and it
failed wanting a slightly newer libacl1.  You could go down a rathole of
trying to install that (warning, it's likely to want a newer glibc, then
you're in a real mess...)  Or build newer logrotate from source.

Or just temporarily kludge around it, e.g.:

   compresscmd /usr/local/bin/xz-for-apache-logrotate
   compressoptions --

# cat > /usr/local/bin/xz-for-apache-logrotate << _EOF_
#!/bin/sh
exec xz -vvz9e --lzma2=dict=64MiB,mf=bt4,nice=273 --threads=3
_EOF_
# chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/xz-for-apache-logrotate

*IF* those compressoptions were delivered by an apache package that's
part of the standard repositories for precise, that's a bug in the
apache package.  It shouldn't be trying to use options that cannot be
parsed by the logrotate of the associated release.  If you pulled the
package from a forward Ubuntu release, you caused the problem; if it's
from a PPA or similar, and you are using it on an Ubuntu release it's
documented to be used with, it's a bug in the PPA...

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Title:
  Cannot handle spaces in compressoptions

Status in “logrotate” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “logrotate” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: logrotate

  I set these options in /etc/logrotate.conf:

     compress
     compresscmd      /usr/bin/xz
     uncompresscmd    /usr/bin/unxz
     compressoptions  -7 -e -T 1
     compressext      xz

  Compression fails with:

     /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
     error: /etc/logrotate.conf:23 bad compressoptions path -7 -e -T 1
     run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1

  logrotate fails if the compressoptions setting has any spaces.  This
  is also upstream Debian bug #159797 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
  bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=159797> -- reported in 2002!

  Like the original report, this one has a workaround:

     compressoptions -7eT1

  Eventually someone will need options which cannot be jammed into a
  single space-free string.

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