Hi,

I don't think this is a good idea.

In collectd 5, the format of the RRDs has changed which would require us to
migrate them all (they use DERIVE instead of COUNTER now). 

We backported quite a few patches into our version of collectd for things we
needed.

So is there any features you need or is this just to follow upstream?

-Michael

On Sun, 2017-09-24 at 16:17 +0200, Matthias Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build 'collectd 5.7.2' for some testing, but it always
> fails with the following warning:
> 
> ...
>  make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/collectd-5.7.2/src'
> 
> cd .. && /bin/sh /usr/src/collectd-5.7.2/libltdl/config/missing
> automake-1.14 --foreign src/Makefile
> 
> /usr/src/collectd-5.7.2/libltdl/config/missing: line 81: automake-1.14:
> command not found
> 
> WARNING: 'automake-1.14' is missing on your system.
> ...
> 
> This is right, because current 'next' uses 'automake 1.15'. I tested
> with 1.15.1, tried several lfs-changes, but still no luck.
> 
> Does anyone got a tip?
> 
> Best,
> Matthias