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

[Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer)]

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/2005-05/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.

HTH

CC

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr at cisco.com] 
Sent: Thursday, 31 January 2008 5:19 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Future of Hobbit - Getting added to distro repos

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.
2. Resolution of common problems when installing Hobbit on RHEL/CentOS
   Here are problems I have encountered in the past:
   * SELINUX blocks access to hobbit cgi and web content (and probably
the creation of suid hobbitping). So the RPM installer script needs to
set the proper security context on the files.
   * 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.  Possible resolution is to also get rrdtool added to
CentOS Plus.
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.

Any other ideas? Am I leaving anything out?
I'd really like to see Hobbit be an available package on "RedHat" (RHEL,
CentOS), as well as Fedora.

-Charles



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