On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 20:09:01 -0500, Antoine Beaupre wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 03:33:27PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > Dmitry said "I'm not sure if I can make it happen as Grafana became
> > very difficult to package". Well, upstream provides Debian packages so
> > they probably can be used to unstuck this very old issue.
> >
> > http://docs.grafana.org/installation/debian/#apt-repository
>
> I confirm this package works well. I have installed in Debian Stretch
> to graph a Prometheus instance and it worked flawlessly.
It might work flawlessly, but the upstream "packaing" has much to be
desired though:
- Appears to have been "packaged" with fpm…
- The automatically generated metadata is rather poor, probably
just incorrect. <https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/issues/409>
- Installs the systemd service file under /usr/lib instead of /lib,
which would break deb-systemd-helper (#887456), which it does not
use anyway.
- Does not enable the systemd service nor the init script.
- Marks said systemd service file under /usr/lib as a conffile.
- Changes pathname owners and permissions w/o checking first with
dpkg-statoverrides.
- Uses grafana as a user, which can easily clash with user names.
That should be _grafana.
- Installs configuration files manually, that it then does not
cleanup on purge.
- Ships unstripped executables.
- Embeds a metric ton of javascript modules.
- Possibly more…
> I strongly recommend we merge with that work.
…so it's definitely not ready for any merge, which I don't think it's
even worth it anyway, given the way this was generated.
Thanks,
Guillem
