On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 07:47:54PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Savannah Hackers, > > The rrdtool on VM internal is pinned at version 1.2. Does anyone have > information on why? Lenny 5 had rrdtool 1.3.1. Squeeze has 1.4.3. > So this is pinning the system to quite an old version. > > I am using rrdtool for some pingstats graphs on another system and > have for several releases. I haven't notice any major API changes > that were disruptive. > > This is on internal. I don't know what would be using rrdtool there. > I am inclined to instrument the program to see what is calling it to > see what might be depending up it.
I needed it for Cacti at a point, because there were issues with newer rrdtool and current Cacti (despite using Debian stable packages). I think the Cacti instance was removed, so the pinning can go away as well :) Plus Cacti fixed this issue a while ago. -- Sylvain
