Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 167904
Upgrade request rrdtool to 1.2
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:13 EST
Can rrdtool please be upgraded to the 1.2.11 release? This is a major release upgrade from the 1.0 series, but is backward compatible. More details of what is new are in http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/newin12.txt Some changes will be required to the rpm spec file, but the one included in the tarball is probably a good start.
Sorry for the late reply. Last I had checked 1.2, the PHP module was still broken, thus forcing the upgrade on people depending on that module would cause some pain... Do you happen to know if the PHP module now works in recent versions (like 1.2.11)?
The future for php-rrdtool looks pretty bleak: * Only cursory mention of php-rrdtool in the specfile in the tarball * Does not exist in Dag Wieers repo http://dag.wieers.com/packages/rrdtool/ - note that he has current rrdtool rpms but none of the v1.2 ones have php-rrdtool. Not to suggest that that is the authorative source of RPMs but the fact it isn't there is significant IMHO. * Mandrake have removed it from their distro as it won't build. Looks like debian don't do it either anymore (I think). * Relatively few recent postings about it in google So looks like it's not going to be coming back soon unless someone who really wants it can be bothered resurrecting it (and no one has stepped up yet). Perhaps it is time to think about obsoleting rrdtool 1.0 and the php-rrdtool rpm, and marking this in in the release notes for FC5 as obsoleted package, and removing it totally for FC6+. Something like rrdtool10-1.0.49 and php-rrdtool10-1.0.49 as well as rrdtool-1.2, so that for now those users who need it can still get it. Could you just upgrade the core rrdtool package in -devel, and run with both the old obsoleted 1.0 version with php-rrdtool, as well as version 1.2?
rrdtool/cgilib problems: 1) rrdtool version 1.2.x no longer includes the cgilib library in the tarball. It now needs to be packaged separately. 2) last official cgilib version : v0.5 See references [1] and [2] 3) last unofficial (?) cgilib version : v0.5.2 See references [3] and [4] References: [1] cgilib homepage http://www.infodrom.org/projects/cgilib/ [2] cgilib 0.5 download http://www.infodrom.org/projects/cgilib/download/cgilib-0.5.tar.gz http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/libs/cgilib-0.5.tar.gz [3] [rrd-developers] cgilib-0.5.1.tar.gz http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-developers/msg01620.html [4] [rrd-developers] Re: cgilib-0.5.1.tar.gz http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-developers/msg01621.html http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/p/cgilib-0.5.2.tar.gz
A patch/tarball which seems to contain the required pieces to build php-rrdtool with rrdtool 1.2 is at http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/contrib/ The php_rrdtool.txt file in the directory says that "I've installed this in PHP4 and PHP5, rrdtool-1.0.49, 1.0.50, 1.2.6, 1.2.7, 1.2.11 all worked without any issues." Hopefully that's the last piece required to allow for a build of rrdtool-1.2 and the additional php-rrdtool...
Any ideas when he 1.2 series might be able to be released into Fedora Extras? I've been waiting for what seems like AGES for 1.2 rpm's. What are the thoughts on the other RRD packages? perl-rrdtool and python-rrdtool (tcl too I suppose, but that's not my bag) Duncan
Jarod Wilson has just updated the devel branch to version 1.2.13 (and the FC-5 to version 1.0.50). rrdtool 1.2.13 should appear in the mirrors soonish (next push). rrdtool-1.2.13-3.fc6 http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/build-status/job.psp?uid=10527 See also ticket #185909 for the FC-5 branch update.