Hi,

We would normally add a link to the rootfile of collectd so that the whole package is being shipped again. That is the easiest option and usually does not waste a lot of space.

Best,
-Michael

> On 10 Sep 2019, at 19:33, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> during testing of 'iptables 1.8.3' - see
> https://patchwork.ipfire.org/patch/2401/ I found that the graphs for
> "firewallhits" in "Network (other)" stayed emtpy with "-nan Bps".
> 
> During restart 'makegraphs' complained about a missing lib for 'iptables':
> 
> root(a)ipfire: /var # /etc/init.d/collectd restart
> Stopping Collection daemon...                                   [  OK  ]
> Mounting RRD ramdisk...                                         [  OK  ]
> Starting Collection daemon...
> lt_dlopen ("/usr/lib/collectd/iptables.so") failed: file not found. The
> most common cause for this problem are missing dependencies. Use ldd(1)
> to check the dependencies of the plugin / shared object.
> Unable to load plugin iptables.                                 [  OK  ]
> 
> 'ldd' showed 'not found', because during updating 'iptables' the
> 'libip4tc' and 'libip6tc'-symlinks were changed, but
> '/usr/lib/collectd/iptables.so' wasn't updated:
> 
> root(a)ipfire: /usr/lib/collectd # ldd /usr/lib/collectd/iptables.so
>        linux-gate.so.1 (0xb7f42000)
>        libiptc.so.0 => /lib/libiptc.so.0 (0xb7f2b000)
>        libip4tc.so.0 => not found
>        libip6tc.so.0 => not found
>        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7d61000)
>        libip4tc.so.2 => /lib/libip4tc.so.2 (0xb7d58000)
>        libip6tc.so.2 => /lib/libip6tc.so.2 (0xb7d4f000)
>        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f44000)
> 
> After updating '/usr/lib/collectd/iptables.so' to the current build it
> didn't complain anymore:
> 
> root(a)ipfire: /usr/lib/collectd # ldd iptables.so
>        linux-gate.so.1 (0xb7f8a000)
>        libiptc.so.0 => /lib/libiptc.so.0 (0xb7f72000)
>        libip4tc.so.2 => /lib/libip4tc.so.2 (0xb7f69000)
>        libip6tc.so.2 => /lib/libip6tc.so.2 (0xb7f60000)
>        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7d96000)
>        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f8c000)
> 
> 'makegraphs' restarted without errors and "firewallhits graph" are
> showing numbers again. So far, so good.
> 
> But: how do we ship this update for 'collectd' the best way?
> 
> Should we update ALL libs for 'collectd'?
> 
> I checked the other libs, and besides 'iptables.so', 'ldd' showed no
> more 'not found'-errors.
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> Best,
> Matthias