Radu, I have updated my ppa to 7.2.5. Can you send me the changes you made to build those 3 extra packages and I can add it to my next ppa release.
I was planning on doing that this week when I ran across your old email, hoping to save a few cycles that way. Thanks, Todd On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Radu Gheorghe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > As you might have figured, we need Ubuntu packages as well. Especially for > Precise. > > The main question I have is where to contribute, and are contributions > needed? I think it would be nice to join forces somehow, for making recent > rsyslog packages available. > > To be more specific, we need rsyslog and rsyslog-relp, with > omelasticsearch, imptcp and mmjsonparse on top of them. So I took the > source package from Todd's PPA (I hope you don't mind, Todd!), and from it > I've built: > - rsyslog-elasticsearch > - rsyslog-imptcp > - rsyslog-mmjsonparse > > I also did a minor fix by taking out the "-c5" parameter from /etc/default > and the init script. All in all it seems to work fine - although there's > quite some more work ahead, like making it available for 32-bit and for > other versions of Ubuntu. > > Now to put the question into context, for me (and others interested in the > components mentioned above), I see the following options of publishing the > packages I've done: > 1. my own PPA/repo > 2. Adiscon's repo. Or PPA if you guys want to make one > 3. Todd's PPA > 4. Debian Experimental repo > > Of course that, except for option 1, the maintainers would have to agree > first :) > > What do you think or suggest? > > Best regards, > Radu > > 2012/12/1 Andre Lorbach <[email protected]> > >> > thanks for that effort. Without having had a closer look at the package >> itself, I >> > just wondered if you based it on the latest Ubuntu or Debian package? >> >> It is based on the latest Ubuntu RSyslog package I could install on Ubuntu >> 12.04. >> What I basically did was taking the package source, modifying, adding and >> updating dependencies like libee, libestr, librelp. >> Then I created a local repository using mini-dinstall and dput, and added >> all these packages to it. >> After initially and successful testing, I uploaded the local repository to >> our webserver. >> >> > Also, an observation while skimming through the repo: The 0ubuntu? >> > versioning scheme is usually reserved for official Ubuntu packages. >> > You could use 0adisconX or something like that. This would have the >> > additional benefit, that once there is an official Ubuntu package >> available, it >> > would supersede your version as XXX-0ubuntuX > XXX-0adisconX >> >> Thanks for the hint, I wasn't aware of this versioning fact. Your >> recommendation sounds reasonable, I will change this with the next package >> update. >> >> Best regards, >> Andre Lorbach >> _______________________________________________ >> rsyslog mailing list >> http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >> http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ >> What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards >> NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad >> of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you >> DON'T LIKE THAT. >> > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of > sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T > LIKE THAT. _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
