On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 12:01:43PM +0000, Barry Scott wrote:
I just had to fix a number of my servers that use node exporter.
The service name has been changed. Why was this done and did no one
think about the impact on users?
This was done here:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/golang-github-prometheus-node-exporter...
as part of the fix for
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2039257
(golang-github-prometheus-node-exporter installs service unit in /etc)
Moving the unit is fine, but rename should not happen stable release.
At least some compat symlinks/Alias= should be provided.
In the worst case I had a server fail to reboot because I had
Requires=node_exporter.service in the default target.
It is unfortunate. It is also unfortunate no-one cared enough about
node-exporter to have it tested during 2 weeks time
(
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-e52d3d8db2)
before it was submitted to stable.
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