From cb3445aa2a5701cda38f41b7f134d3e22000db2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kim Brown <kimb18h@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:38:30 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Installer: WorkerThread: Add syslog to ignored paths

A new install should start with an empty syslog. Adding
the syslog path to the set of ignored paths will prevent
an existing syslog file from being copied into the new
install.

Fixes #8373
Change-Id: I79ecf95773a34360185d38ee4ef0c8337b062e7a
---
 src/apps/installer/WorkerThread.cpp | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/apps/installer/WorkerThread.cpp b/src/apps/installer/WorkerThread.cpp
index 66b69996ee..01cc30221a 100644
--- a/src/apps/installer/WorkerThread.cpp
+++ b/src/apps/installer/WorkerThread.cpp
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ public:
 			fIgnorePaths.insert("haiku-boot-floppy.image");
 			fIgnorePaths.insert("system/var/swap");
 			fIgnorePaths.insert("system/var/shared_memory");
+			fIgnorePaths.insert("system/var/log/syslog");
+			fIgnorePaths.insert("system/var/log/syslog.old");
 
 			fPackageFSRootPaths.insert("system");
 			fPackageFSRootPaths.insert("home/config");