Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] rrdtool pinned to v1.2 on internal

[Sylvain]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 07:47:54PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Savannah Hackers,
> 
> The rrdtool on VM internal is pinned at version 1.2.  Does anyone have
> information on why?  Lenny 5 had rrdtool 1.3.1.  Squeeze has 1.4.3.
> So this is pinning the system to quite an old version.
> 
> I am using rrdtool for some pingstats graphs on another system and
> have for several releases.  I haven't notice any major API changes
> that were disruptive.
> 
> This is on internal.  I don't know what would be using rrdtool there.
> I am inclined to instrument the program to see what is calling it to
> see what might be depending up it.

I needed it for Cacti at a point, because there were issues with newer
rrdtool and current Cacti (despite using Debian stable packages).

I think the Cacti instance was removed, so the pinning can go away as
well :)  Plus Cacti fixed this issue a while ago.

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Sylvain