On Mon, Dec 04, 2006, Cato Christoffer Feness wrote: > I have made a first attempt at packaging for OpenPKG; the software in question > being Munin. The following is a description of Munin from the developer site: > > "Munin the monitoring tool surveys all your computers and remembers what it > saw. It presents all the information in graphs through a web interface. Its > emphasis is on plug and play capabilities. After completing a installation a > high number of monitoring plugins will be playing with no more effort. > > Using Munin you can easily monitor the performance of your computers, > networks, SANs, applications, weather measurements and whatever comes to > mind. It makes it easy to determine "what's different today" when a > performance problem crops up. It makes it easy to see how you're doing > capacity-wise on any resources. > > Munin uses the excellent RRDTool (written by Tobi Oetiker) and the framework > is written in Perl, while plugins may be written in any language. Munin has a > master/node architecture in which the master connects to all the nodes at > regular intervals and asks them for data. It then stores the data in RRD > files, and (if needed) updates the graphs. One of the main goals has been > ease of creating new plugins (graphs). " > > The SRPM can be obtained at this url: > > http://limacute.projects.linpro.no/browser/trunk/PKG/munin-1.2.4-1.src.rpm?format=raw > > The source RPM generates two packages; one for the client daemon and one for > the data gatherer. > > It is my hope that Munin will be part of the OpenPKG distribution, so I'll be > very grateful if you can review the package and provide some feedback.
I've reviewed the package. It seems to be derived from non-OpenPKG sources and especially conflicts with some philosophical aspects of OpenPKG. For instance OpenPKG doesn't use the RPM %package feature. Instead we are using build options to enable/disable features or components of software. So, your "minun" package at least will require a bunch of adjustments before it can be taken over into OpenPKG. Additionally, as it is derived from somewhere else it might be problematic from an IP point of view to take it over as is anyway. Nevertheless, if time permits it, I'll further investigate on packaging Munin for OpenPKG. In the meantime you can upload it to ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/contrib/ so it is not lost... Ralf S. Engelschall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.engelschall.com ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List openpkg-dev@openpkg.org
