FW: [hobbit] Future of Hobbit - Getting added to distro repos

[Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, 31 January 2008 5:50 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> 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/fedora-extras-list@redhat.com/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/bgmilne@mandriva.org/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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