On Tuesday, 27 July 2010 16:39:16 Xymon User in Richmond wrote:
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.
Some of the reasons to use packages are consistency with policies. For example, most distributions disallow packages from owning any files below /home, and require that operation of the software not require /usr to be writable at all times, and various other requirements. As such, logs cannot actually reside under the same parent directory as binaries. The packages provide symlinks to the real locations, so things look the same taking into account the difference in BBHOME.
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.
Well, once I have more than one installation of software, I package it myself anyway, as maintaining a package becomes less work at about the 3rd installation. If I no longer maintain packages (although I do), that *really* doesn't mean that you would need to switch, you should consider rebuilding the SRPM ...
Being an open-source project, there really isn't any "you have to" or "you can't", only a "am willing to" or "am not willing to".
Regards,
Buchan