[hobbit] allinone and other patch on Debian?

[Buchan Milne]

On Wednesday 23 January 2008 13:25:46 Calvey, Mike wrote:
> If I download the [hobbit_4.2.0.dfsg.orig.tar.gz] file, unpack and
> untar, I can patch it with the allinone.patch and also apply the
> hobbit-perl-client.patch (for Oracle monitoring - which is what I am
> trying to do) but cannot build the package with dpkg -b hobbit-4.2.0 as
> it does not have the dpkg control files etc.

The only reason for this patch is to enable the graphs of the table space. 
Since I didn't feel like deploying this patch on my production Hobbit servers 
at the time ... I modified dbcheck.pl to print the tablespace in the same 
format as the Hobbit disk check ... which allows us to have the tablespace 
graphs (on the trends page only, not on the tablespace check unfortunately).

There is more benefit to running dbcheck without the Hobbit patch than 
patching Hobbit ... so I would only waste time on this once you are actually 
monitoring your Oracle servers with dbcheck.

However ... this does lead to some questions about patches to Hobbit. There is 
the hobbit-perl-client patch, the BBWin patch, and shortly one for Devmon. 
Hopefully this isn't going to result in the Qmail situation (where Qmail 
administrators spend more time massaging the patches they want than anything 
else ...). Can we expect integration any of these patches upstream (say, in a 
Hobbit 4.2.1 release)?

Regards,
Buchan