On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Troy Dawson wrote > Looks like we didn't get enough testing done, and maybe rrdtool doesn't > really need to be in the plain SL release. I have no problem pulling it out > of the release and having people just install it from dag or EPEL, > whichever they prefer. Since it hasn't gotten into any final release, this > isn't that much of a problem, I just need to take it out of the > repositories. Does anyone *really* need it in the release? Is there any > real reasons why people can't get it from dag and/or EPEL after they are > installed?
Someone answered: > If these packages *need* the particular version of rrdtool > I suggest that it might not be ready for an SL release. > If they only have tight dependencies because the package build > put precise version into the package, then those packages > ought to be remade. > > So no, I don't feel that SL needs to have rrdtool. Is there ever going to be a solution? Now installing ganglia, the gmetad node never can nightly yum update except by hand, due to rrdtool version clashes in public SL mirrors.
