NOISE setting in /etc/default/aide needs better documentation

[fool]

Binary package hint: aide

this is only a bug in the documentation and is low priority; option works as designed.

the documentation in /etc/default/aide claims:

# This parameter gives a grep regular expression. If given, all output lines
# that _don't_ match the regexp are listed first in the script's output. This
# allows to easily remove noise from the AIDE report.

while it is technically true, my interpretation is that any regexp, such as /.svn/ should match any line containing that expression. unfortunately it is the case that the expression must match the absolute path starting from /, so what i really wanted was .*/.svn/ to catch what came before. as well, this will only match file names that are changed/added/removed, not other text in the report. perhaps the following modification to the comment in the file would illuminate the situation?

# This parameter gives a regular expression for filenames to ignore during
# the first part of the report. The expression must match the entire
# filename, and not just any arbitrary substring within the filename.
# If given, all output lines that _don't_ match the regexp are listed first
# in the script's output. This allows noise to be easily removed from the
# AIDE report.
# Example: /home/developer/.*/\.svn/ will filter subversion metadata;
# /\.svn/ will not (except that metadata stored in the root directory)

checked against aide 0.13.1-8ubuntu1 in ubuntu 8.04