On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:41:26AM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
Now you're threatening to expel me from the community? For posting notes on workarounds to get a useful package to work? What's this about? Ganglia's working fine for me.
I'm honored that you think I have that much sway in this community that I would be able to expel you from it. The reality, however, is quite different. I don't speak for the project, nor do I speak for the community as a whole; I have enough difficulty speaking for myself.
My issues were your building from native source doing the standard three-step; it's wrong to do so in an rpm-managed distro.
My claims? The project's own documents describe this stuff. You saw no conflicts? Great. Not every bug shows up on every box. You believe one instance of not seeing a bug means no on else will? That's Microsoft-style quality control.
Yes, *claims*. You've provided no evidence except your claims that it didn't work. And please understand that I said it worked *for me* and that *I* didn't see a conflict. I never said it wasn't an issue for others. Had I noticed a problem I'd also have taken the time to document such to the parties responsible, including this mailing list.
Sorry. If that's confusion, I got it from instructions (several sets of them) out on the web for installing Ganglia from EPEL, which referred to it as a Fedora repository.
Yep, confusion. You do, I hope, realize that EL and the offspring of EL including CentOS are based on Fedora? This makes Fedora the test base for future EL cuts. EPEL is just a 3rd party repo providing (mostly) Fedora kit rebuilt for EL use in CentOS, SL, etc.
I said I've been a Linux sysadmin since '93. I've been in the industry since '82. Thanks for mistaking me for a youngster though!
That's nice. With an illustrious background such as yours I'd expect less argument over the merits of SRPMs vs native builds and a better understanding of EPEL's role.
John