Re: Fedora / RHEL & Co: Python split -- request for testing

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback, the syslog-ng42 repo is now updated: Python-based drivers are now split from Python support.

If there are no complaints, I'll update the syslog-ng-stable repo to this version in the second half of the week.

Peter

Peter Czanik (CzP) <[email protected]>
Balabit (a OneIdentity company) / syslog-ng upstream
https://syslog-ng.com/community/
https://twitter.com/PCzanik

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From: Peter Czanik (pczanik) <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 2, 2023 14:11
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Fedora / RHEL & Co: Python split -- request for testing

Hi,

Recently I wrote a blog about Python packaging problems and my plans to split the Python-based drivers of syslog-ng from the syslog-ng Python plugin: https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/syslog-ng-python-packaging I implemented it for my syslog-ng git snapshot repo for Fedora / RHEL:

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/czanik/syslog-ng-githead/

Please test it ASAP, if you got a bit of time.

Originally I planned to use it only for the 4.3 release, but if I get positive responses, I'll also backport these changes to my syslog-ng42 repo, and use these changes also for the syslog-ng-stable repo.

The blog post explains why is this important, but TL;DR: this way you do not have to install 50+MB of dependencies you will likely never use, and syslog-ng will not crash on start on RHEL 8 & Co. due to lack of dependencies.

Peter

Peter Czanik (CzP) <[email protected]>
Balabit (a OneIdentity company) / syslog-ng upstream
https://syslog-ng.com/community/
https://twitter.com/PCzanik

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