Hello, I've meant to write this some time ago but somehow forgot :(
The thing is, Amazon Linux is RPM-based, so most YUM repos out there work. Not the one for rsyslog, for two reasons: 1) Amazon Linux reports "latest" for $releasever, but that is fixed by following step 4 here: http://www.rsyslog.com/rhelcentos-rpms/ 2) Amazon Linux has "priority=10" to its own repos, which include an rsyslog package (version 5, of course :p). Because the rsyslog repo file has no "priority" set, the v5 package takes precedence. So YUM doesn't "see" v8, and even if you want to install a package that isn't in the Amazon repos (like rsyslog-elasticsearch) YUM will fail to find the needed dependency (rsyslog v8) This can be fixed by setting a "priority" value lower than 10 on the rsyslog.repo file. So I guess we have two options to solve this: - add priority=9, for example, to rsyslog.repo - add a note at step 4 on the RPM page that for Amazon Linux one needs to add it manually (along with replacing $releaseserver with 7) Not sure which is best, I don't have a preference right now. Either way, once this is fixed, it can also be added that Amazon Linux is supported, not only RHEL/CentOS What do you think? Best regards, Radu -- Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
