Graphite

Getting graphite packaged for ubuntu

Asked by Elliot Murphy on 2009-12-21

Hi! I'm interested in using graphite for several projects. It looks great, thanks for making it!

I deploy on Ubuntu, and so would like to have graphite packages installable from the Ubuntu archive. I'm willing to do some work of packaging graphite if you're willing to make releases. I think this software is awesome, and more people should be using it. I'd also like to figure out how to get the rabbitMQ integration included with core graphite: http://somic.org/2009/05/21/graphite-rabbitmq-integration/

I've already packaged python-amqplib, so that dependency is taken care of, and it looks like most other dependencies like django and pycairo are already packaged for Ubuntu.

I see that whisper has it's own setup.py, and should probably be packaged into a python-whisper package on it's own. Would you be willing to:
a) add a whisper/LICENSE file containing the text of the apache license
b) make a tarball release of the whisper module and upload it to pypi.python.org?

From there I can easily create a debian/ubuntu package for whisper, and work on getting it into Ubuntu.

Once that is done, then we could tackle packaging the rest of graphite. What do you think?

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Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Solved

For:: Graphite Edit question

Assignee:: No assignee Edit question

Solved by:: chrismd

Solved:: 2010-01-08

Last query:: 2010-01-08

Last reply:: 2009-12-31

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chrismd (chrismd) said on 2009-12-31:

Sorry for the delay in answering your question, it's been a hectic holiday :)

That's great that you're finding graphite useful. It's also great that you should ask about both Ubuntu packages and rabbitMQ integration because another graphite contributor, zirpu, has already started working on the rabbitMQ integration in one of his branches and has also expressed interest in creating Ubuntu packages.

I just created the whisper/LICENSE file in trunk, and a tarball release can be made by simply running 'python setup.py sdist' in the whisper directory. If you can create an Ubuntu package that would be awesome! Please let me know if you do.

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