X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=debian%2FNEWS.Debian;h=e5ee70f0d1d22b88dc2354dab596fc97174e51d4;hb=HEAD;hp=ff1b92659dfe6e985a57bd804fdb05ee2a0f5541;hpb=d9ba31a1b8cd0c37778ba336e8d80917f9fba4fe;p=pkg-collectd.git diff --git a/debian/NEWS.Debian b/debian/NEWS.Debian index ff1b926..e5ee70f 100644 --- a/debian/NEWS.Debian +++ b/debian/NEWS.Debian @@ -1,4 +1,46 @@ -collectd (4.0.0~rc6-1) experimental; urgency=low +collectd (5.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low + + Version 5 of collectd introduced a couple of backward-incompatible changes. + The full list of changes is documented in the collectd wiki found at + . + + In a client / server setups it's generally advised to upgrade the server + first. By using the v5_upgrade target plugin, the v5 server will be able to + receive and process data sent by v4 clients. This allows one to upgrade the + clients at an arbitrary later date. See the wiki for details. + + The layout of various RRD files has changed. In order to keep your old data + you have to migrate it. This can be done by using /usr/lib/collectd/utils/ + migrate-4-5.px. The script will output a series of shell commands that + should do all the work automatically. However, depending on your setup, a + couple of minor changes might be necessary to migrate all of your data. In + this case, please file a bug report so that the necessary changes can be + added to the script. The script will modify the RRD files in place. + + Thus, the migration can be done like this (you might want to backup your + data before): + + /usr/lib/collectd/utils/migrate-4-5.px -indir /var/lib/collectd/rrd/ \ + > migrate-4-5.sh + vim migrate-4-5.sh # verify / adapt the script + bash migrate-4-5.sh + + Also, the syntax of some plugin configuration blocks has changed. See the + wiki for details and instructions how to update your configuration. + + -- Sebastian Harl Sat, 19 May 2012 15:13:21 +0200 + +collectd (4.2.0-1) experimental; urgency=low + + Prior to this version any plugin that has dependencies other than libc6 got + its own binary package. As the number of such packages was getting quite big + they have been merged into the "collectd" binary package and all plugin + dependencies were added as recommendations. See + /usr/share/doc/collectd-core/README.Debian.plugins for details. + + -- Sebastian Harl Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:38:21 +0100 + +collectd (4.0.2-1) experimental; urgency=low This version introduces significant changes to the layout of the RRD files created by collectd. In order to keep your old data you have to migrate it. @@ -8,11 +50,38 @@ collectd (4.0.0~rc6-1) experimental; urgency=low might be necessary to migrate all of your data. In this case, please file a bug report so that the necessary changes can be added to the script. The script creates the new RRD files in /tmp/collectd-4/ which can be moved to - /var/lib/collectd/ if everything went right. + /var/lib/collectd/rrd/ if everything went right. + + Thus, the migration can be done like this (you might want to backup your + data before): + + /usr/lib/collectd/utils/migrate-3-4.px | bash + rm -rf /var/lib/collectd + mkdir /var/lib/collectd + mv /tmp/collectd-4 /var/lib/collectd/rrd + + Thanks to the new plugin infrastructure, the functionality to write RRD and + CSV files and the logging and networking facilities could be removed from + collectd's core and put into separate plugins, allowing more flexible + configurations. To get the behavior of collectd 3.x you have to enable the + "rrdtool" and "syslog" plugins (enabled by default) and enable and configure + the network plugin. See collectd.conf(5) for details. + + This also means that a single configuration file is sufficient and there are + no longer any different modes that need to be configured. The init script + does no longer start one collectd process for each config file found in + /etc/collectd/ but only for collectd.conf. Additionally, the syntax of the configuration file has changed slightly. All strings need to be surrounded by double quotes. See collectd.conf(5) for details. - -- Sebastian Harl Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:44:26 +0200 + Please note that there is no longer the need to load any plugins on the + server side just to be able to save values submitted by clients. All + required information are automatically loaded by collectd. You only need to + load plugins which are supposed to collect data locally. + + See also: https://collectd.org/migrate-v3-v4.shtml + + -- Sebastian Harl Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:36:58 +0200