Re: Interested in maintaining zabbix addon package

[Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>]

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Hi Robin,

Sent from my Desktop Computer
On 27/03/2021 00:13, Robin Roevens wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm Robin, living in Belgium and a daily administrator of Zabbix both
> professionally and at home. I use linux on all my computers, mainly
> openSUSE, and administer RHEL based linux servers as a profession. Used
> Gentoo, Debian, Slackware, Redhat, Mandrake etc many many years ago..
>
> I have been using IPFire also for many years now, coming from
> Smoothwall and IPcop, first in a VM on my home server, currently on an
> IPFire appliance from Lightning Wire, so evidently I like monitoring my
> appliance using Zabbix.
> Hence I wrote a Zabbix Template to monitor and alert on IPFire specific
> metrics (https://github.com/RobinR1/zbx-template-ipfire) and had
> recently added a suggestion in the IPFire wiki - zabbix addon page to
> use my template.
> In response to my edit, Alexander Koch added a notice to that page that
> the current Zabbix IPFire addon was no longer maintained.
>
> As an experienced user of both I may be interested in taking up the
> role as package maintainer for the zabbix addon in IPFire.
> I created packages before using Suse's OBS but never officially
> maintained ones, so this would be my first, and with a currently
> 'unknown' technology for me (Pakfire).

You will of course be very welcomed by the IPFire dev team.They are a bit busy right now with the build up to the Core Update 155 release.

Welcome to the IPFire team. I started out a year and a half ago with updating am addon that I used that had become out of date and now am also helping with providing patches to any programs I happen to find that are out of date.

So I have trod the path you are setting out on and will be willing to help in any way I can.

> I started by reading the info available on the IPFire wiki and found
> https://wiki.ipfire.org/devel/ipfire-2-x/addon-howto as, I think, the
> most current documentation on how to build packages on IPFire 2.x.
> Other Pakfire-related info seems to be mainly for IPFire 3.
> The required build environment is currently building on my PC, so I
> hope to start working on it soon.
> However at the end of that document, the instructions as of how to
> actually submit the package for inclusion in IPFire seems to be
> missing.
The addon page you found is exactly the one to use. The end part of that page needs to be tidied up to point at the patch submission section.
> So I will try to update the zabbix agent using this build env as soon
> as it is ready, and for as far as I currently understand it, I will
> then probably end up with changes in lfs/zabbix_agentd and
> config/zabbix_agentd/, which I then just have to submit here as a patch
> following the instructions on ipfire wiki about submitting patches?

A few bits I have learned are:-

use git commit -s       The -s adds your email address as the Signed-by: line automatically

use git format-patch   This gives you a patch formatted in the way that IPFire need it

use git send-email       This send the patch to the IPFire development mailing list without mangling it like some mail MUA's can do (as I found out).

> Anyway, this was my introduction, and I hope I will be of some help in
> this great project.

Welcome and just ask for help if you hit any problems.

Sometimes response may take a day or so as they are a small team and especially at times leading up to a Core Update Release.

> Regards
> Robin
>
>