-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, 31 January 2008 5:50 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Cc: Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer)
Subject: Re: FW: [hobbit] Future of Hobbit - Getting added to distro repos
On Thursday 31 January 2008 02:36:41 Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote:
Hi all
The rrdtool RPMs are in the Fedora 7/8 Everything repos. This means
that the _might_ find their way into RHEL6 providing rrdtool (and all
its components) are compatible with RedHat.
It's unlikely hobbit would go into RHEL until it's been in Fedora and
I've had a quick look at the hobbit README and seen that there are four
components that are not GPLed, this may or may not be a problem for
RedHat's lawyers. This post
(http://www.archivum.info/user-641dcf180e38@xymon.invalid/2005-0
5/msg00099
.html) requested a review of hobbit for inclusion in Fedora but looks
like no one took up the challenge.
Anyway, I've raised tickets 1801320 and 1801322 with RedHat to have
rrdtool and hobbit included in RHEL5.
I have some experience creating/maintaining RPMs so I'll put my name
forward for consideration in the interim.
I'd recommend you take a look at my Mandriva package first:
http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/hob
bit/current/
The packages basically have no valid errors from rpmlint, or duplicate files in distro checks etc (some of which can be seen on my page on one of the 3rd-party package checking tools for Mandriva - http://youri.zarb.org/demo/mandriva/user-88e1743d6c68@xymon.invalid/rpmch
eck.html note the absence of Hobbit).
Regards,
Buchan
I've had a look at your SPEC file. It doesn't build cleanly under RHEL
due to the Mandrivia specific macros. Can you make it more generic so
as to support other RPM based distros?
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