[Xymon] Spec file for 4.3.4?

[Colin Coe]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Jeremy Laidman
<jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:
> 2011/8/25 Tom Diehl <tdiehl at rogueind.com>
>>
>> On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Buchan Milne wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I have discussed this many times, but there are a number of spec
>>> files
>>>
>>> floating around, and most of them don't take upgrading (e.g. 4.2.3 to
>>> 4.3.x)
>>> into account, and many fix different issues, but almost no-one seems to
>>> be
>>> willing to discuss what must be fixed, and contribute to fixing the spec
>>> file
>>> in svn.
>>
>> I would love to discuss what needs to be fixed to get a good set of rpms
>> for
>> RHEL/centos/fedora. The problem is that many people want rpms for other
>> rpm
>> based distros that I have no experience with. I have seen many attempts in
>> the
>> past to maintain distro agnostic rpms with very limited success.
>
> I have a SuSE spec file that is pretty close to what's provided in the
> source tarball.  I think I can get it to be backwards-compatible (I'm
> guessing the original is for Red Hat distros) with various %if conditionals.
>  I'd be happy to work as part of a team of spec maintainers to get "the one
> spec to rule them all".  I don't have access to servers with other distros,
> so I can only test on SuSE/SLES.
> Cheers
> Jeremy
>

I'd more than happy to throw my hat in the ring to assist with the
RHEL/Fedora side.

And on a sort-of related note, maybe we can package up popular
'additional' tests such as Oracle and MySQL so that everything is in
one spot

My 2 cents

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