On 2018-01-19 01:21:24, Guillem Jover wrote:
> 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.
Ouch... sorry, I didn't look at the actual thing - i just assumed (wow.)
that they did the right thing. How naive of me...
Anyways... As usual, I guess the next step is to break this down into
distinct tasks, e.g. listing the npm dependencies that need to be
shipped and so on.
Sorry for the naiveté.
A.
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