Would it be better to open an issue? We've confirmed that changing the priority lower than 10 fixes the issue Radu described.
Otis -- Monitoring * Alerting * Anomaly Detection * Centralized Log Management Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:53 AM, Radu Gheorghe <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
