On Sun,  9 Feb 2003 12:15:09 -0800, 
"Burton Strauss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date:  Sun, 9 Feb 2003 20:21:06 +0100
> 
> >On Sun,  9 Feb 2003 09:36:21 -0800, 
> >"Burton Strauss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> <snip/>
> 
> > > The ntop dependency in the .rpm is  (should be) for rrdtool, not
> > > for a specific (or minimum) version.
> >
> >..agreed.
> > 
> > > I really don't know - I've used .39 and .40 - and I've got no
> > > clue what the changes are in rrdtool from version to version.  I
> > > guess.38  will work...
> > > 
> > > Try it...
> > > 
> >
> >..I did.  Next on my list is go spool down the rpm makers.
>  
> You've hit the one big problem w/ rpm - to be useful to the largest
> audience, you have to build with all the options a package provides,

..even when building rpms from srpm's, these standard options 
can be overridden, see below.

> which then becomes the minimal set.  Try installing RedHat without any
> audio, printer or X-windows stuff, say you're just building a bridge. 
> You wouldn't believe the junk that get's brought in.

..I do, "server install" is about 400MB and up, without servers....
...as in: toss in whatever it takes to get it working, then pick 
out all the junk... I really need a crunch box as a build server.
4 trottling bridges sold this far.  Yeah, getting organized first, 
is better.  ;-)

> There's no conceivable reason why ntop needs the snmp enabled version
> of rrdtool.

..thanks!  How do I feed "./configure --enable-iknowbetter" 
etc to 'rpmbuild --rebuild ntop-2.1.56-0.src.rpm' ?
[arnt@lana ntop]$ pwd && ./configure --help | grep iknowbetter
/home/arnt/ntop/ntop-2.1.56/ntop
  --enable-iknowbetter        Override WILLFAIL
[arnt@lana ntop]$

..in 'http://y-imai.good-day.net/sylpheed/', Yoichi Imai recommends 
the use of 'SYLPHEED_CONFIGURE_FLAGS', like this:

> $ export SYLPHEED_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--enable-ssl"
> $ rpm --rebuild {#sylpheed_rpm}.src.rpm

..could ntop get NTOP_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in 2.1.57?

> Perhaps you should just use the source for rrdtool.  It should check
> your system, decide it's not there and build without.

..will work nicely as soon as the ntop rpm rollers fix that rrdtools
check: 
[root@lana ntop]# rpm -Uvh ntop-2.1.56-0.i386.rpm 
error: Failed dependencies:
        rrdtool is needed by ntop-2.1.56-0

...and this hilarious one:
[root@lana ntop]# rpmbuild --rebuild ntop-2.1.56-0.src.rpm
Installing ntop-2.1.56-0.src.rpm
error: Failed build dependencies:
        rrdtool is needed by ntop-2.1.56-0
[root@lana ntop]#

...for example, a wee cute grep cut etc in 'rrdtool --version' output?:
[root@lana bin]# ./rrdtool --version
RRDtool 1.0.40  Copyright 1997-2001 by Tobias Oetiker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Usage: rrdtool [options] command command_options

Valid commands: create, update, graph, dump, restore,
                last, info, fetch, tune, resize, xport

RRDtool is distributed under the Terms of the GNU General
Public License Version 2. (www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)

For more information read the RRD manpages

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.

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