On Tue, July 27, 2010 10:39, Buchan Milne wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:39:45 Xymon User in Richmond wrote:
I'm about to begin migrating a hobbit server on Centos5 to an RHEL5
server running xymon. Would like to hear any thoughts/advice on
whether to do a source install or a yum repo install. I'm a package
management advocate, so I lean toward the yum install, but package
management depends on the actual packages in the repo being managed on
an ongoing basis. I'd especially like to hear from Buchan M. and Neil
F., since Buchan advised Neil about a year ago to do a yum
installation.
What do you need to hear from me?
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/devmon/index.php?title=InstallRHEL
orCentOS
As I am now more involved in the Xymon project itself now, I may try and
improve matters further regarding packages, but I am not sure if it is
possible to host a repo on SourceForge.
Sorry, guess I should have elaborated. I wanted to hear if you'd give the
same advice now as a year ago, and whether we could count on a Xymon rpm
repo being maintained going forward. Looks like the answers are "yes" and
"maybe". Given that some of the rpm-based file locations differ from
those resulting from a source install, I'm now leaning toward installing
from source. If the packages don't get maintained going forward, I'd end
up having to migrate to source-based, and that would involve hand-tweaking
the rpm-based locations.
Thanks for stepping up to the primary project admin role. That's a lot of
work.
regards,
j.