The latest Slackware logrotate package in this directory is also the 
latest currently available anywhere. The v.3.5.9-1 revision was ported 
directly from the Debian archives.
 
The original v.2.5 'logrotat.tgz' slackpack (ported from Red Hat a while
ago) is now renamed and lives on as 'logrotate-2.5.tgz'. It has been left 
here for those who prefer "slightly smaller" over "more functionality". 
But both versions should work on any Slackware distribution from 3.4 to 7.1 
(and also on any Slackware-based Linuxes such as Alfa, Pygmy, Loop and our 
very own TripleG Linux). 

The size difference is mainly due to the stand-alone libpopt.so library
required by (and added to) the 3.5.9-1 package. If you already have this 
library (and it is installed by default on Slackware 8.0 via both elflibs.tgz 
and rpm.tgz), the size difference becomes moot. You really should always go 
for version 3.5.9-1 just for the extra bells and whistles. What's 30K 
anyway these days?

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IMPORTANT NOTICE:
It has been confirmed that the above packages will NOT work on Slackware
8.0 or on any other distribution based on 8.0. This is due to the fact 
that that 8.0 is missing libc5 and ldso, with which the above packages were
compiled. For distributions based on Slackware 8.0 download 
logrotate-3.5.9-8.0.tgz package instead.
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I have not put up source code because a) I have very, VERY limited bandwidth, 
and b) five tarballs were used to make v.3.5.9-1 work on Slackware < 4.0. 
These tarballs, totalling about 1 MB, were:

logrotate_3.5.9.orig.tar.gz
logrotate_3.5.9-1.diff.gz
popt_1.6.2.orig.tar.gz
popt_1.6.2-5.diff.gz
gettext-0.10.tar.gz

The only modification to the above code was the removal of Red Hat references
in logrotate.c (true Slackers will understand why :) If you really want the 
tarballs yourself, do a search on debian.org or Google. The source is readily
available elsewhere, don't even ask me for it!

Enjoy!

George Georgakis
<admin@tripleg.net.au>
Sunday 8 December 2001