[c-nsp] Advanced use of mrtg

[Victor Sudakov]

Mark Tinka wrote:
> 
> > Cacti has so many dependencies including PHP, MySQL, cairo, pango,
> > some X libraries and what not, I really feel quite reluctant to
> > install it. mrtg is tiny compared to that.
> 
> We run Cacti on FreeBSD.
> 
> FreeBSD takes care of all dependencies required by Cacti. Been running
> it for years, can't complain.
> 
> Of course, if you're installing things by hand, Cacti can be unwieldy.

No, of course from the ports/packages, but the amount of required cr*p
is amazing. And this is even after I have disabled some outrageous
dependencies (like OpenGL) in my poudriere:


# pkg install -n cacti
Updating sibptus repository catalogue...
sibptus repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
The following 41 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
        cacti: 0.8.8f_1
        php5-sockets: 5.4.45
        php5: 5.4.45
        libxml2: 2.9.2_3
        php5-mysql: 5.4.45
        mysql56-client: 5.6.26
        libedit: 3.1.20150325_1
        php5-session: 5.4.45
        php5-xml: 5.4.45
        rrdtool: 1.4.8_9
        pango: 1.36.8_2
        encodings: 1.0.4_3,1
        font-util: 1.3.1
        fontconfig: 2.11.1,1
        freetype2: 2.6_1
        xorg-fonts-truetype: 7.7_1
        font-misc-meltho: 1.0.3_3
        mkfontdir: 1.0.7
        mkfontscale: 1.1.2
        xproto: 7.0.28
        libfontenc: 1.1.3
        font-bh-ttf: 1.0.3_3
        font-misc-ethiopic: 1.0.3_3
        dejavu: 2.35
        harfbuzz: 1.0.6
        cairo: 1.14.2,2
        png: 1.6.18
        pixman: 0.32.8
        xcb-util-renderutil: 0.3.9_1
        xcb-util: 0.4.0_1,1
        libXdmcp: 1.1.2
        libxcb: 1.11.1
        libpthread-stubs: 0.3_6
        libXau: 1.0.8_3
        glib: 2.44.1_2
        gettext-runtime: 0.19.6
        perl5: 5.20.3_8
        icu: 55.1
        graphite2: 1.3.3
        php5-snmp: 5.4.45
        net-snmp: 5.7.3_11

The process will require 259 MiB more space.
47 MiB to be downloaded.
#


-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov at sibptus.tomsk.ru