[Buildroot] rsyslog plugin selection

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Wed Feb 8 21:10:51 UTC 2017


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> writes:

 > Hi,
 > The rsyslog package in Buildroot currently hardcodes the list of
 > plugins to enable. These plugins define what types of input, output,
 > parsing, etc. is supported, and is typically very application
 > dependent.

 > The current selection amounts to about 1 MB of rootfs, while the
 > rsyslog daemon itself is only about half of that. By restricting the
 > list of plugins to those a project actually needs, it is thus possible
 > to reduce the size of the rootfs.

 > Two questions arise:
 > 1. should we use one config symbol with a string list, or separate
 > config symbols for each plugin?

 > 2. should we keep the current set as default, even if it contains less
 > common options?

Separate config options are IMHO quite a lot more user friendly, so if
we are not talking about a LOT (20+) of options then that is what I
would prefer.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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