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hvisage / metalog

metalog is a syslog replacement that allows regular expresion matching
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autogen.sh: Don't break with github release tarballs. #1

Closed orbea closed 6 years ago

orbea commented 6 years ago

Github release tarballs do not contain any .git directories or files and autogen.sh will fail if these are missing because of set -e.

This commit will add the minimum requirements needed for autogen.sh to not break in these cases and still allow building metalog. Unfortunately because of the gnulib requirement just using autoreconf -fi is not enough.

orbea commented 6 years ago

@hvisage Is this project still at all alive?

hvisage commented 6 years ago

I'm not actively working on it, but it still contains several aspects I prefer when I do start to use syslog facilities. As such I'm open for anybody that is willing to take on maintainer role ;)

m-kress commented 6 years ago

Alive? Hm. I don't know. Metalog is quite cool. Unfortunatelly its building depends on gnulib. I contributed the remote logging stuff a few weeks ago, but had huge difficulties to build it again. Therefore I hesitate to accept your patch, because I actually don't know what I would do by doing that. Could you image contributing to get rid of gnulib? @hvisage: Could you accept the patch anyways?

orbea commented 6 years ago

I have a patch that gets rid of gnulib, I haven't tested it beyond building it. I can make a PR if someone else tests it.

m-kress commented 6 years ago

hvisage: Would you consider making a new release (again with .tar.gz and zip)? This would be awesome, because other packaging managers could update their packages, too. You started to version the releases with a time stamp instead of 3.x. Was that intentional?

hvisage commented 6 years ago

Yes @m-kress the timestamped releases were intentional.

I need to checkout the code and start considering a few things I've been wanting to do/get into Metalog (somethings similar to syslog-ng, and perhaps some logstash/graylog/etc.) additions, and since the lst changes were so far a few between, it is a tad difficult to classify them at present in the x.y.z format.

Does it mess with some versioning on your side?

m-kress commented 6 years ago

hvisage: the new versioning system is ok, as long as it doesn't change its syntax too frequently. Thanks for the release!