[collectd] Chef recpie for collectd

[Florian Forster]

Hi Miah,

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 05:31:14PM -0800, Miah Johnson wrote:
> I think this is a problem in the 'ark' cookbook, which is what handles
> the actually download/compile/install portion of the install. 

oh, alright. I was half expeting it to have some "only if changed" flag
or so.

> So I propose the following to hopefully resolve this issue:

Perfect, thanks!

> Of course this is software we're talking about and we know how people
> handle software updates (or rather how they don't) so for now its
> probably prudent to leave your redirect up.

Yeah, I'll monitor this and remove the redirect when traffic allows
this. Probably around 1000 downloads / day or so.

> But we might want to update ContactMe.chef to include some details
> about local mirrors and how to update the attribute appropriately (I
> can assist with this of course). I could also post a document covering
> these things to the chef-collectd github and you could redirect to
> that. Lets discuss.

I've just updated / rewritten the note do explain what's going on and
where to find more details and this discussion. You can find the
document at

  http://collectd.org/temp/ContactMe.chef

If you think we should cover something else, like updating attributes in
the cookbook, please let me know. Unfortunatly I know too little about
Chef to provide meaningful pointers myself. (Just send a diff or
something ;)

I went for a text-only document because I expected this file to be
downloaded and then lie around in the file system. So for an
administrator digging around, trying to figure out why this doesn't
work, I thought that a text file is the easiest to read.

> I'm sorry for causing this problem, so please let me know if there is
> anything else I can do to help.

No worries, I think we're right on track for a solution that's working
for everybody.

Thanks and best regards,
—octo
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