Future of Hobbit - Getting added to distro repos

[Charles Jones]

I am going to attempt to drive getting Hobbit added to the Centos Plus 
repository, but first we need to figure out a few things:

1. Who will create and maintain the RPMs
    I'd rather someone with experience creating and maintaining 
distribution packages do this, but if all else fails I will volunteer.
2. Resolution of common problems when installing Hobbit on RHEL/CentOS
   Here are problems I have encountered in the past:
   * SELINUX blocks access to hobbit cgi and web content (and probably 
the creation of suid hobbitping). So the RPM installer script needs to 
set the proper security context on the files.
   * librrdtool is not provided in the RHEL or CentOS/CentOS Plus 
repository (so even if you had a Hobbit RPM, you would have to go and 
get 3 rrdtool packages (rrdtool, rrdtool-devel, and perl-rrdtool) from 
the DAG repository.  Possible resolution is to also get rrdtool added to 
CentOS Plus.
3. Figuring out what would be the most common/preferred/accepted 
installation dirs for Hobbit. Last week I installed the FC5 rpm, and it 
installed to /etc/hobbit, whereas the tarball by default installs to a 
subdirectory of /home. Some people like system tools to be in a "system" 
directory, while others like being able to install to a user space 
controlled location.

Any other ideas? Am I leaving anything out?
I'd really like to see Hobbit be an available package on "RedHat" (RHEL, 
CentOS), as well as Fedora.

-Charles