Graphite

How do I upgrade to last version on Ubuntu 14.04 using apt-get?

Asked by Leonid on 2016-03-09

I have Graphite 0.9.12 installed via apt-get on Ubuntu 14.04. System is suffering from UnpicklingError's (https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/issues/608) which make usage of carbon cache problematic and leads to missing latest datapoints on the graphs (http://librelist.com/browser//graphite/2014/4/6/reason-for-latest-datapoints-are-missing-from-graphs/#ed4c8138db92cfd2feaf08918b270275). So I want to upgrade to latest version with UnpicklingError bug fixed. But it looks like that there is no newer versions in Ubuntu 14.04 repositories. I also tried upgrate using pip with no success. Pip doesn't `see` package installed with apt-get and install new graphite in another folder.

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Piotr Popieluch (piotr1212) said : #1

If you want to keep using the system packages you should create a bug report there, in this case on the ubuntu bug tracker. You could ask to patch your issue or to update the package to a newer version. Please note that OS policies try to keep stable versions in a OS release and don't allow package maintainers to just update to every new release. I'm not familiar with Ubuntu policies... You might need to update to a newer Ubuntu version.

Otherwise you could install carbon manually as described here:
https://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/0.9.15/install.html

Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : #2

It seems that there is no newer package available for trusty.
Backporting the package for a higher Ubuntu version would require backporting several other packages first because of dependencies.

Maybe just cherrypicking the related bugfix can serve as a workaround

edit /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/graphite/util.py and motify the two occurrences of the assignment of PICKLE_SAFE to the contents as shown in https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/blob/fe04c9e64d53057877a25cbc78edd70dc8127759/webapp/graphite/util.py#L161-L167
You have to make sure that you use the same indentation as done in the other lines of your source.

(Remark: Not tried myself, I am not using graphite, do this on your own risk.)

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