rpm repo link in node_exporter readme

[R F]

Hi,

in the README of the GitHub node_exporter page there's a link to a "community-supplied COPR repository which closely follows upstream releases". Has this been discontinued?

Unless I'm missing something, the last build for epel7/8 is 9 months old and failed. If that's the case, do you think the documentation could be updated, removing that reference or even better updating it?

Thanks
Kind regards

Riccardo

[Ben Kochie]

Hrm, good question. It's not maintained by Prometheus officially, someone else supports this.

It looks like there's also https://github.com/lest/prometheus-rpm, which provides packages via https://packagecloud.io/prometheus-rpm/release

I don't know the maintainers of either of these projects, so maybe some of them are around here and can answer questions?

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[Harald Koch]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, at 08:33, Ben Kochie wrote:

Hrm, good question. It's not maintained by Prometheus officially, someone else supports this.

It looks like there's also https://github.com/lest/prometheus-rpm, which provides packages via https://packagecloud.io/prometheus-rpm/release

I've used the packagecloud.io repo for years at $job. I like to use repositories like this because our regular patching process upgrades the components automatically. I had no issues with the packages there, and they upgrade within a couple of days of official prometheus releases.

(Unfortunately I just switched away from using it last week, only because I needed to support both RedHat and Ubuntu. The Ubuntu packages are old, and I couldn't find a PPA with current versions. It was easier to just use the Ansible cloudalchemy.node_exporter installer on all servers instead of maintaining one installer for RedHat and another for Ubuntu...)

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Harald

[Ben Kochie]

I have been trying to find time to add official rpm/deb builds for a while now. What is needed is to extend our promu builder setup to produce the files, and then upload them to a service like packagecloud.

https://github.com/prometheus/promu/issues/93

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