--On Friday, April 11, 2008 09:34:25 -0400 Paul Pathiakis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is another request for someone to port OpenNMS to a FreeBSD port.
www.opennms.org <http://www.opennms.org/>
This is a work of art that is well worthwhile beyond Tivoli and
HP-Openview.
It performs a lot of functions and would be well worth packaging as a
port. There's a lot of people using it, but having it as a port would
be great.
(No, I don't have time to perform and maintain a port)
And you think we maintainers do? Get real!
I just spent several intense evenings/nights updating a complex set of ports
that I maintain. I gave up a lot of other things that I could have been doing
to do this. I'm not complaining. I volunteered But seriously, this is a
community. Ports should be created and maintained by people who actually use
them. Otherwise they don't get thoroughly tested and they're more likely to
get dropped in the laps of the port team, none of whom are sitting around
twiddling their thumbs.
In the case of OpenNMS, the build requires jicmp, jrrd and iplike, *none* of
which are ported (as well as postgresql, apache-tomcat. java jdk and optionally
rddtool, all of which are already ported.) So, to even *start* porting
OpenNSM, you would *first* have to port all three of those apps. (And I
haven't even looked to see what dependencies *they* have that might not be in
the ports tree yet.
This is not uncommon with complex software packages. In fact, the ports that I
just submitted updates for *forced* me to port three other apps *first*, just
so I could port what *I* wanted. (And yes, I maintain those as well.)
If you're really serious that you want OpenNMS ported, then it's time to make
your contribution to FreeBSD. :-) Solicit help from other FreeBSD users who
use/want OpenNMS, and work together to distribute the load and get the job
done. There's plenty of people on this list who can help you when you run into
problems.
--
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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