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sous-chefs / rsyslog

Development repository for the rsyslog cookbook
https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/rsyslog
Apache License 2.0
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Enable ability to specify installation of newer versions of rsyslog via source #96

Closed hartfordfive closed 9 years ago

hartfordfive commented 9 years ago

I've recently come across a situation where I needed to install rsyslog 8.13.0 and unfortunately had to do it from scratch because this cookbook didn't have that option. Also, having the ability to specify --configure parameters would be useful especially when you want to enable non-standard plugins such as omhiredis.

tas50 commented 9 years ago

We're trying to avoid source installs anywhere in our community cookbooks at this point. The complexity level introduced is not worth the functionality added. What you can do is manage either a PPA or a yum repo in a wrapper cookbook. I did this in the past and it's a very simple solution to ensuring you get the latest packages while still getting the management this cookbook provides.