Re: Strategy for multi-distro .monitrc management?

[rory]

Martin Pala wrote:
> Hi,
>
> although the proposed solution may simplify the support of portable 
> configuration, i think it will be better to use for example the 
> mentioned m4 for the creating monit configuration from common source 
> for various distributions.
>
> From my point of view, the distribution of portable/conditional 
> configuration won't be advantage for the end user since he/she will 
> see lot of unnecessary informations, which will make the configuration 
> hard to read. The preprocessed configuration for monit distribution 
> for particular platform may be simpler to read/manage on target platform.
>
> It may be also needed to distribute different binaries for various 
> platforms - due to the different prerequisite libraries for example 
> (such as openssl when enabled). The preprocessing of the configuration 
> may be automated using custom script when building monit.
>
> Summary:
>
> i think the implementation of preprocessor in monit configuration 
> parser is not needed and is out of project scope - simple existing 
> tools may serve for portable package creation.
I agree. What I do is have "snippets" of my monitrc file and I build a 
complete file from these snippets automagically based on OS and services 
that need to run.