Hi Jarod: Thanks for the email. If you could recommend some patches for the spec file, I'll see about adding it upstream. I don't think I'll be overhauling the spec file in the short term since it has worked pretty well for us for the last little while :-) Cheers, Bernard
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jarod Wilson Sent: Fri 28/07/2006 08:27 To: ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Ganglia-developers] ganglia spec file maintenance As I understand it, there's an upstream ganglia spec file, one maintained by a SUSE packager, and the one I'm now maintaining for Fedora Extras (and quite possibly specs for other rpm-based distros). At the suggestion of Bernard Li, who maintains the upstream spec, I thought we could start some discourse on how we might reduce the number of spec files, or at least strive for more consistency. Note that Fedora has some fairly stringent packaging guidelines (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageReviewGuidelines, among other pages). While I started out with the upstream spec as a base to get ganglia into Fedora Extras, I ended up scrapping it and rewriting from scratch, due to the volume of change required to meet Fedora guidelines. Now the diff between the upstream spec and my spec is now more than two times the length of either spec. :\ For reference, my spec can be seen here: http://wilsonet.com/packages/ganglia/ganglia.spec -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
