Zabbix update?

[Havard Eidnes <he%uninett.no@localhost>]

Hi,

I would like to see Zabbix picked up (I have a local need...),
and I've done some work, based on the existing setup in
wip/zabbix.

IMHO, one of pkgsrc's weak spots is the options handling,
particularly in conjunction with pre-built binary packages, where
you typically only get the default picked by the package
maintainer, and if you want something non-default, there's no
matching binary package, and you have to build it yourself.

Also, since Zabbix appears to consist of at least three different
components, (agent, proxy, server), I find it natural to have
these three as separate packages.

To that end I've so far created a zabbix-agent and a
zabbix-server package.  However, the choice of database backend
is probably a "server thing" if I've understood correctly, so
instead of having the choice of database backend as an option
(and defaulting to the presumably non-optimal sqlite3), I was
thinking of creating separate and distinct zabbix-server
packages, one for each choice of database backend (sqlite3,
postgres, mysql).

It's not yet clear to me which components are affected by the
"ldap", "curl" and "snmp" options, and whether it's reasonable to
turn those on by default.

I've based this on wip/zabbix/ and renamed Makefile to
Makefile.common and tweaked it a bit, and updated the Zabbix
version from 1.8.something to the more recent 2.4.2.

Any comments before I commit my incremental work so far?

Regards,

- Håvard

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