This may clarify:

I have searched and searched and cannot find the Debian Hobbit .dsc source package on Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058) or any other site.

Looking at the http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/hobbit page there are the following source files

* [hobbit_4.2.0.dfsg-7~bpo40+1.dsc]
* [hobbit_4.2.0.dfsg.orig.tar.gz]
* [hobbit_4.2.0.dfsg-7~bpo40+1.diff.gz]

The [hobbit_4.2.0.dfsg-7~bpo40+1.dsc] file on this page looks like a dpkg control file but it is not the same as the control file in the Debian31-hobbit_4.2.0-1_i386.deb package I have if I do a ar -x Debian31-hobbit_4.2.0-1_i386.deb.

What is the [hobbit_4.2.0.dfsg-7~bpo40+1.diff.gz] file for?

If I download the [hobbit_4.2.0.dfsg.orig.tar.gz] file, unpack and untar, I can patch it with the allinone.patch and also apply the hobbit-perl-client.patch (for Oracle monitoring - which is what I am trying to do) but cannot build the package with dpkg -b hobbit-4.2.0 as it does not have the dpkg control files etc.

Anyone know where I get a source I can patch without having to rebuild all the control files etc?

-----Original Message----- From: Christoph Berg [mailto:cb at df7cb.de] Sent: 21 January 2008 21:09 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] allinone and other patch on Debian?

Re: Calvey, Mike 2008-01-21 <83695B9523A49C45B7D72795A1DAE1A902048112 at UK-GLW-EX01.myanite.com>

So the problem is how does one apply the "allinone.patch" to a Hobbit installation, installed with dpkg and Debian31-hobbit_4.2.0-1_i386.deb??

Download the *source* package (.dsc), not the binary package (.deb).

I'm not really sure I get your question, chances are you are looking for "apt-get source hobbit".

http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/hobbit-client http://packages.debian.org/experimental/hobbit-client

Christoph

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I am running dbcheck and have limited graphs. I wanted to apply this patch to increase the graphing. Looking into the hobbit-perl-client.patch I see a few more headings (see selected extracts below) and assume these will do more than tablespace?

+[HitCache] +[TblSpace] +[TblSpace1] +[RollBack] +[InvObj]

+int do_dbcheck_memreq_rrd(char *hostname, char *testname, char *msg, time_t tstamp) +int do_dbcheck_hitcache_rrd(char *hostname, char *testname, char *msg, time_t tstamp) +int do_dbcheck_session_rrd(char *hostname, char *testname, char *msg, time_t tstamp) +int do_dbcheck_rb_rrd(char *hostname, char *testname, char *msg, time_t tstamp) +int do_dbcheck_invobj_rrd(char *hostname, char *testname, char *msg, time_t tstamp)

-----Original Message----- From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net] Sent: 23 January 2008 15:47 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Cc: Calvey, Mike Subject: Re: [hobbit] allinone and other patch on Debian?

On Wednesday 23 January 2008 13:25:46 Calvey, Mike wrote:

If I download the [hobbit_4.2.0.dfsg.orig.tar.gz] file, unpack and untar, I can patch it with the allinone.patch and also apply the hobbit-perl-client.patch (for Oracle monitoring - which is what I am trying to do) but cannot build the package with dpkg -b hobbit-4.2.0 as it does not have the dpkg control files etc.

The only reason for this patch is to enable the graphs of the table space. Since I didn't feel like deploying this patch on my production Hobbit servers at the time ... I modified dbcheck.pl to print the tablespace in the same format as the Hobbit disk check ... which allows us to have the tablespace graphs (on the trends page only, not on the tablespace check unfortunately).

There is more benefit to running dbcheck without the Hobbit patch than patching Hobbit ... so I would only waste time on this once you are actually monitoring your Oracle servers with dbcheck.

However ... this does lead to some questions about patches to Hobbit. There is the hobbit-perl-client patch, the BBWin patch, and shortly one for Devmon. Hopefully this isn't going to result in the Qmail situation (where Qmail

administrators spend more time massaging the patches they want than anything else ...). Can we expect integration any of these patches upstream (say, in a Hobbit 4.2.1 release)?

Regards, Buchan

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