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

[Josh Luthman]

I'm using CentOS but I always install rpmforge once the install is done.  I
know for a fact that rrdtool is in either the CentOS or rpmforge repo's.  If
you're correct that the rrdtool isn't on the CentOS repo, it is on the
rpmforge one.

It is a VERY easy install:

http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/RPMForge

Here's a snip from my install notes:

yum -y install yum-priorities
wget http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.*.rpm
rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.*.rpm
yum -y install gcc gcc-c++ pcre-devel libpng-devel openssl-devel
openldap-devel fping rrdtool-devel
yum -y update



On 1/30/08, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:18:56PM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
> > 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.
>
> One reason why I hesitate to contact the various distributions is that I
> don't know what their normal practice is for package maintainers. Some
> - like Red Hat - have their own team, others depend on volunteers. And
> some just pick up one of their distribution brethren.
>
> >   * 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.
>
> Major issue. rrdtool is used by a lot of software packages.
>
> > 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.
>
> There is actually a standard for this: The Linux Filesystem Hierarchy
> Standard (FHS). The packaging scripts that come with Hobbit tries to
> follow it.
>
> One of the things that FHS/LSB dictates is that you do not EVER install
> software in /home or /usr/local . Architecture dependant binaries go in
> /usr, configuration files in /etc, logs in /var/log, data files in /var
> and so on. Wikipedia has a brief overview of this in
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
>
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