On 18/06/2010 01:09, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
I should care what you believe? Stay ignorant, if you like. If not, take a CentOS system, add the EPEL repository for ganglia, try "yum install ganglia", and prepare to see all sorts of package conflicts. Plus it's not the current ganglia anyway. Better to build from tar.
A wise man once said that till such time as a bugreport is filed or evidence to effect is shown, an issue is just a fragment of imagination or a user induced issue they are too embarrassed to admit to. Given that you made a wide sweeping statement that there were no usable rpms for ganglia - I still think you don't think you what you are talking about. I know of, and have used in the past, atleast 2 different set of rpms that worked just fine. On the same platform as you mention, one of those rpm sets having roots in what you hosted at EPEL / Fedora now.
To reconfirm the situation, I've just done a fresh C5 install, rolled in epel and installed ganglia with no issues at all. If you want, I can post a copy of the vm image used to run this test, the ks.cfg used, and the puppet manifest that did the deployment.
What the heck do you mean, "used ganglia in anger"? That's just incoherent.
Its an often used term in the admin / infrastructure circles to indicate if a person has used a technology or app in conditions that would have stressed it or used a near complete feature set.
- KB