On Thursday 31 January 2008 02:36:41 Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote:
Hi all
The rrdtool RPMs are in the Fedora 7/8 Everything repos. This means that the _might_ find their way into RHEL6 providing rrdtool (and all its components) are compatible with RedHat.
It's unlikely hobbit would go into RHEL until it's been in Fedora and I've had a quick look at the hobbit README and seen that there are four components that are not GPLed, this may or may not be a problem for RedHat's lawyers. This post (http://www.archivum.info/fedora-extras-list at redhat.com/2005-05/msg00099 .html) requested a review of hobbit for inclusion in Fedora but looks like no one took up the challenge.
Anyway, I've raised tickets 1801320 and 1801322 with RedHat to have rrdtool and hobbit included in RHEL5.
I have some experience creating/maintaining RPMs so I'll put my name forward for consideration in the interim.
I'd recommend you take a look at my Mandriva package first:
http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/hobbit/current/
The packages basically have no valid errors from rpmlint, or duplicate files in distro checks etc (some of which can be seen on my page on one of the 3rd-party package checking tools for Mandriva - http://youri.zarb.org/demo/mandriva/bgmilne at mandriva.org/rpmcheck.html note the absence of Hobbit).
Regards, Buchan