On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Buchan Milne wrote:

On Monday, 22 August 2011 21:34:34 Tom Diehl wrote:

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On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Jason Kincl wrote:

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Daniel,

This issue has been discussed in another thread of the mailing list, see link here: http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2011-April/031407.html

If you follow the thread, I replied with a fix for the xymonmenu.css file not found. As for the critical.cfg.bak file, I have just commented that line out of the spec file with no problems.

On Aug 22, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Daniel McDonald wrote:

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I tried to build 4.3.4 using the included spec file, and came up with a few errors:

RPM build errors: File not found: /tmp/xymon-root/var/lib/xymon/www/menu/xymonmenu.css File not found: /tmp/xymon-root/etc/xymon/critical.cfg.bak File listed twice: /usr/lib/xymon/client/bin/clientupdate File listed twice: /usr/lib/xymon/client/bin/logfetch File listed twice: /usr/lib/xymon/client/ext

Does anyone have a working specfile? I’d like to build this on Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.2

I do not know anything about Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.2 but I have an srpm at: http://yumrepo.tntechs.com/yum-repository/local/centos/tntechs-testing/6/SR PMS/xymon-4.3.4-1.el6.tnt.2.src.rpm that I am using for my CentOS 5 and 6 servers.

It is modified from the original spec file included with xymon

Which has multiple issues regarding most package quality compliance guidelines. IMHO, it is a bad place to start ...

Agreed but it was the quickest way for me to get a template to hack on. I have fixed a lot of the problems rpmlint shows when run against the srpm. When rpmlint is run against the rpm there are many errors. Most are things like the following: xymon.i386: W: manpage-not-compressed gz /var/lib/xymon/www/help/manpages/man8/xymonproxy.8.html xymon.i386: W: name-repeated-in-summary C Xymon xymon.i386: W: non-standard-uid /var/lib/xymon/www/gifs/blue-ack.gif xymon

xymon.i386: E: non-standard-executable-perm /usr/lib/xymon/server/bin/xymon-mailack 0775L

In the xymon context, I do not think the above warnings are valid.

For the error, I need to understand what it is telling me. The permissions on the referenced files are 0775 I do not understand what 0775L is and more importantly how to fix it. The spec file says the permissions are 775.

As I said above this is a work in progress.

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and includes some selinux policy files that may or may not be correct. They were generated by audit2allow after running xymon with selinux in permissive mode.

How about submitting a patch so these can be included in the source release?

I am hesitant to do that because I am not sure that they are correct. If someone who understands selinux could review them then I do not have a problem.

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It is a work in progress and guaranteed to contain as yet unknown bugs. :-) Use it at your own risk or ignore it. Whatever you prefer.

If someone finds errors/bugs, I would appreciate knowing about them. Especially if you know how to fix them as they relate to CentOS/RHEL.

Well, I have discussed this many times, but there are a number of spec files floating around, and most of them don't take upgrading (e.g. 4.2.3 to 4.3.x) into account, and many fix different issues, but almost no-one seems to be willing to discuss what must be fixed, and contribute to fixing the spec file in svn.

I would love to discuss what needs to be fixed to get a good set of rpms for RHEL/centos/fedora. The problem is that many people want rpms for other rpm based distros that I have no experience with. I have seen many attempts in the past to maintain distro agnostic rpms with very limited success.

As to the upgrade issue, I have no real way of testing upgrades and there are a lot of variables that I am sure I would miss. The only thing I did in my srpm wrt upgrades was check to see if the old hobbit* config files existed and rename them to the xymon equivalents.

Until such a time, there will continue to be multiple incompatible packages.

Indeed.

Regards,

-- Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com