[xymon] Fresh server install on RHEL5: source or yum repo?

[Xymon User in Richmond]

On Tue, July 27, 2010 10:39, Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 July 2010 14:39:45 Xymon User in Richmond wrote:
>> I'm about to begin migrating a hobbit server on Centos5 to an RHEL5
>> server running xymon.  Would like to hear any thoughts/advice on
>> whether to do a source install or a yum repo install. I'm a package
>> management advocate, so I lean toward the yum install, but package
>> management depends on the actual packages in the repo being managed on
>> an ongoing basis.  I'd especially like to hear from Buchan M. and Neil
>> F., since Buchan advised Neil about a year ago to do a yum
>> installation.
>
> What do you need to hear from me?
>
> https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/devmon/index.php?title=InstallRHEL
> orCentOS
>
> As I am now more involved in the Xymon project itself now, I may try and
> improve matters further regarding packages, but I am not sure if it is
> possible to host a repo on SourceForge.
>

Sorry, guess I should have elaborated.  I wanted to hear if you'd give the
same advice now as a year ago, and whether we could count on a Xymon rpm
repo being maintained going forward.  Looks like the answers are "yes" and
"maybe".  Given that some of the rpm-based file locations differ from
those resulting from a source install, I'm now leaning toward installing
from source.  If the packages don't get maintained going forward, I'd end
up having to migrate to source-based, and that would involve hand-tweaking
the rpm-based locations.

Thanks for stepping up to the primary project admin role.  That's a lot of
work.

regards,
j.