Re: [Devmon] new beta release date?

[Buchan M. <bg...@st...>]

On Monday, 12 September 2011 09:38:35 Jeremy Laidman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Buchan Milne 
<bg...@st...>wrote:
> > I would like to make a stable release quite soon. Unfortunately, in
> > March, quite soon was hopefully within a month, and now, it is still
> > about the same
> > ...
> 
> I've been working on a spec file for SUSE and Redhat/Fedora Linuxes that
> would be good to get into the next (or some future) release.  It well works
> for me, and another list subscriber (the original author of the spec file)
> is also checking for Redhat/Fedora compatibility with a view to inclusion
> into EPEL.  Also would be good to have testers from other distros (eg
> Mandriva).  Should I log a tracker thingamy and post it there?

Well, I am using the Mandriva package, which I maintain, on platforms 
including RHEL. But, I don't see a point in spending more effort on it myself 
when RH doesn't have equivalents of or implementations of useful Mandriva 
generically named macros (%_pre_useradd, %_post_service).

I can possibly add conditional definitions of versions of these macros that 
work on RH-based distros.

I would prefer to start with the Mandriva spec file and work from there 
myself:

http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-
bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/devmon/current/SPECS/devmon.spec?view=log

Since I have a repo for RHEL/Centos, which I know other users have used, it 
would avoid upgrade issues if there are any differences:

http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/Xymon.repo
http://staff.telkomsa.net/packages/rhel5/hobbit/noarch/

Any rpm-related files which need changes we should consider implementing in 
the release (if possible).

> I would love more people to test the current svn, and give feedback,
> 
> > specifically on any open bugs.
> 
> I'll be testing it out over the next couple of weeks.  Feedback also in
> tracker?

Please.

Regards,
Buchan