30 Jan
2008
30 Jan
'08
8:18 p.m.
I am going to attempt to drive getting Hobbit added to the Centos Plus repository, but first we need to figure out a few things:
- Who will create and maintain the RPMs I'd rather someone with experience creating and maintaining distribution packages do this, but if all else fails I will volunteer.
- Resolution of common problems when installing Hobbit on RHEL/CentOS
Here are problems I have encountered in the past:
- SELINUX blocks access to hobbit cgi and web content (and probably the creation of suid hobbitping). So the RPM installer script needs to set the proper security context on the files.
- librrdtool is not provided in the RHEL or CentOS/CentOS Plus repository (so even if you had a Hobbit RPM, you would have to go and get 3 rrdtool packages (rrdtool, rrdtool-devel, and perl-rrdtool) from the DAG repository. Possible resolution is to also get rrdtool added to CentOS Plus.
- Figuring out what would be the most common/preferred/accepted installation dirs for Hobbit. Last week I installed the FC5 rpm, and it installed to /etc/hobbit, whereas the tarball by default installs to a subdirectory of /home. Some people like system tools to be in a "system" directory, while others like being able to install to a user space controlled location.
Any other ideas? Am I leaving anything out? I'd really like to see Hobbit be an available package on "RedHat" (RHEL, CentOS), as well as Fedora.
-Charles