[Pkg-zenoss-team] How much is left on the packaging?

[Wayne Tucker]

> My company is considering deploying Zenoss, and since all our servers run
> Debian we'd of course want a package for zenoss.
> So how much is left on the packaging of Zenoss? Is there a test package
> somewhere?

I can't answer to the overall packaging progress since I'm only doing
documentation.  However, I do know that there's a version in SVN that
builds cleanly.  The init scripts aren't done yet, but everything seems to
work if you start the daemons manually,

One catch is that it depends on some programs that aren't in etch or
lenny, so be prepared to do your own backports (or run sid).  Here's a
slightly modified version of the steps I used to build it:

$ svn checkout svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-zenoss
$ cd pkg-zenoss/packages/zenoss/tags/2.0r5780-1
$ debian/rules get-orig-source
$ tar xvzf zenoss_2.0+r5780.orig.tar.gz
$ mv zenoss-2.0+r5780.orig zenoss-2.0+r5780
$ cp -r debian zenoss-2.0+r5780/
$ cd zenoss-2.0+r5780
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

The only step you should need to repeat if you get build dependency errors
(after resolving them, of course) is the last one.

You'll need to start the daemons through the Zenoss web interface for now.
 It's under [Management / Settings] -> Daemons.

I had to create /var/lib/zenoss/perf and chown it to zenoss, but I haven't
had a chance yet to determine whether that was the result if something I
did wrong.

- Wayne