[Xymon] Suggestion: make config or make init targets

[SebA]

Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:35:06 SebA wrote:
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> Wouldn't you want a package instead?
>
> I will try and makde 'rpm -ta xymon-4.3.0.tar.gz' work for final 4.3.0
> release.
> 
> Regards,
> Buchan

Well,
(a) I am impatient and wanted the latest features and fixes faster than
4.3.0 was going to be released, let alone waiting for an RPM to be built
(although I appreciate your effort here - thanks), but
(b) and more critically on this occasion, although this is a redhat
derivative I was compiling the client on, it does not use RPMs, it uses
Conary instead. This is rPath Linux. So an RPM is not going to help me on
these machines. (Although I also do have plenty of servers that do use RPMs,
and I would be pleased to use your RPM on those once it becomes available.
On those machines I probably used one of your old RPMs a while back.) No
package exists for rPath Linux. I spent a while trying to find one. I even
looked into writing one. But then I realised that compiling the client was
pretty painless these days (it used to fail on some 'dependency' that was
not actually required for the client). The only thing that is still annoying
is the init script.

Kind regards,

Sebastian A