[Bro] Gentoo Package - Include Failure of CAF

Azoff, Justin S jazoff at illinois.edu
Mon Mar 14 11:03:26 PDT 2016


> On Mar 13, 2016, at 6:14 PM, M.B. <tomboy64 at sina.cn> wrote:
> 
> Sure. It's an automated QA warning by portage:
> Symbolic link /usr/share/broctl/scripts/broctl-config.sh points to
> /var/spool/bro/broctl-config.sh which does not exist.
> 
> The install phase is listed in attached bro-warning.log. The QA warning
> is at the very end. Please ignore the warnings in the middle; they are
> coming from a bug in portage.
> 

Ah.. this has come up before.  The target of the symlink is auto created the first time bro runs.

https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1437 is somewhat related..

Homebrew ran into this as well, they fixed it by moving spool and logs under var/ which actually makes more sense.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commit/3591e099860b00a57b7f9f67ef69d5e6eac0fa47

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/42179


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- Justin Azoff




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