Hobbit in Debian 🔗 link

Hi,

so weeks ago I started looking into hobbit since one of my company's
customers is using it. Of course the fact that it wasn't included in
Debian so far was nagging me, so I took the packages from sf.net, used
Henrik's debian/ dir as base for mine, and uploaded the packages.

http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hobbit.html

Of course there's probably bugs in the packaging, so comments would be
very welcome. The original packaging was already very usable, so many
thanks for the great work.

There's also a hobbit-plugins package, but so far it only contains 2
plugins (an "apt" check, and a related check for upgraded libs still
linked to running processes).

http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hobbit-plugins.html

From a Debian viewpoint, the javascript to render the menu for the
webpages wasn't free enough, so I wrote a replacement using CSS only.
If that sounds interesting for inclusion into the next hobbit version,
I can post the files here. (Or you can get them from ftp.debian.org.)

Happy hobbiting,
Christoph
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Hi Christoph,

On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 12:35:00AM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:

thank You very much! I had been hoping someone would volunteer to be
the Debian package maintainer, so this is very much appreciated.

Good idea to put this in a separate package.

Excellent! I haven't looked at it yet, but it is certainly nice to have
a truly open implementation for this.


Regards,
Henrik

Re: Henrik Stoerner 2007-09-12 <user-6078276e0e2f@xymon.invalid>

Hi Henrik,

sorry for the late answer, I should move this mailbox to a more
prominent place in mutt.

The main "feature" I introduced here is a /etc/hobbit/clientlaunch.d/
directory where hobbit-plugins puts *.cfg files. It would be nice if
"include" directories supported wildcards, at the moment the init
script does something like "ls -1 /etc/hobbit/clientlaunch.d/*.cfg >
/var/run/hobbit/clientlaunch-include.cfg" which is then included.

Here's what I did:

* add a new menu.css file
* add a menu.cfg that contains the actual menu as a HOBBITMENU
  variable
* add "include /etc/hobbit/web/menu.cfg" to hobbitserver.cfg (just
  before BBMENUSKIN)
* tweak web/* to use &HOBBITMENU:
  sed -i -e's/ Transitional//' -e'/"Topline"/i&HOBBITMENU' $S/etc/hobbit/web/*_header
  (the Transitional removal is to fix the Doctype, iirc the CSS didn't
  work otherwise)
* do not install wwwfiles/menu/menu_items.js.DIST in hobbitd/Makefile
* remove <script> from hobbitd/webfiles/bb_footer and
  hobbitd/webfiles/hobbitnk_footer

(These changes are applied on the fly at package build time, having
them included probably makes things easier.)

Christoph
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On Friday 28 September 2007 11:52:49 Christoph Berg wrote:

I (maintainer of Hobbit for Mandriva) originally requested a feature like 
this, which Hendrik implemented using the "directory" directive, which will 
include all files in the directory (although I would have preferred a glob, 
to avoid /etc/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.d/somecheck.cfg.rpmnew, 
or /etc/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.d/somecheck.cfg~ being read and leaving the admin 
wondering why his new settings aren't applied).

In our packages, I ship both hobbitlaunch.cfg and clientlaunch.cfg with:
directory /etc/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.d

since then one can be sure that client-side extensions will run on the hobbit 
server if installed and enabled by default.

Regards,
Buchan

Re: Buchan Milne 2007-10-01 <user-92bbb84dde05@xymon.invalid>

I (maintainer of Hobbit for Mandriva) originally requested a feature like this, which Hendrik implemented using the "directory" directive, which will include all files in the directory (although I would have preferred a glob, to avoid /etc/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.d/somecheck.cfg.rpmnew, or /etc/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.d/somecheck.cfg~ being read and leaving the admin wondering why his new settings aren't applied).

Ah, I missed that so far in the documentation. The ability not to read
files like *.dpkg-new is required for the include directory to be
useful for us. Full-featured globbing is not necessary, I'm fine with
a directory include provided it features something like "include only
files ending in .cfg".

Christoph
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