Packaging Hobbit (network monitor) - anyone interested in helping out?

Manuel Wolfshant wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Thu Oct 30 15:27:33 UTC 2008


Roland Wolters wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> currently I am trying to package hobbit (client + server) for EPEL and Fedora. 
> I have to do that anyway, but it would be nice to have high quality packages 
> upstream in the EPEL/Fedora repositories.
> [...]
> - Installation:
> Right now  the server requires the client due to some files included with teh 
> client package. However, server and client must not run together, so the 
> question is if this should be checked at runtime (current solution) or with 
> package excludes (like razorsedge.org does, for example).
>   
usually this can be handled by creating a hobbit-common package which 
includes the stuff needed by both client and server and two other 
packages, for client and for server.




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