Package: ganglia-monitor
Version: 3.7.2-4
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I'm running ganglia on debian bullseye. When I run "gmond --help"
or "gmetric --help", I get:
-c, --conf=STRING The configuration file to use for finding send channels
(default=`/etc/gmond.conf')
The package delivers /etc/ganglia/gmond.conf:
root@bullseye:/usr/src/ganglia-3.7.2# dpkg -S /etc/ganglia/gmond.conf
ganglia-monitor: /etc/ganglia/gmond.conf
root@bullseye:/usr/src/ganglia-3.7.2# LC_ALL=C dpkg -S /etc/gmond.conf
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/gmond.conf
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I tried running gmetric without option "-c". Gmetric looks then for a file
not delivered in the package:
root@bullseye:/usr/src/ganglia-3.7.2# gmetric
Configuration file '/etc/gmond.conf' not found.
Unable to create ganglia send channels. Exiting.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I expected that the commands would look for the delivered configuration
file. The package from buster looks for the correct file and doesn't
need the "-c" option:
1 jochen@buster:~$ gmetric --help
gmetric 3.6.0
...
-c, --conf=STRING The configuration file to use for finding send channels
(default=`/etc/ganglia/gmond.conf')
That looks like a regression for me. A cursory look at salsa hints
at commit
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ganglia/-/commit/594581d074beb0adc3fad1e0c0a1d380ae7e995a
"Simplify rules file.". The commit removed the option
to configure: --sysconfdir=/etc/ganglia
./configure CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" CPPFLAGS="$(CPPFLAGS)"
LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS)" --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) \
--prefix=/usr --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man \
--libdir=\$${prefix}/lib \
--sysconfdir=/etc/ganglia \
I changed debian/rules accordingly (pseudo patch):
override_dh_auto_configure:
dh_auto_configure -- \
+ --sysconfdir=/etc/ganglia \
--with-gmetad
With that change applied --help shows /etc/ganglia/gmond.conf
and the error messages disappears.
I hope the description is clear enough. Thanks for your work
on ganglia.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
APT prefers testing-security
APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages ganglia-monitor depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii init-system-helpers 1.60
ii libapr1 1.7.0-6
ii libc6 2.31-12
ii libconfuse2 3.3-2
ii libganglia1 3.7.2-4
ii libpcre3 2:8.39-13
ii libtirpc3 1.3.1-1
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2
ganglia-monitor recommends no packages.
ganglia-monitor suggests no packages.
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