NETWAYS / NETWAYS/support-collector

Check for "genuine packages"

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Description

We could use a more thorough check of which packages were installed:

  • Were the packages provided by the actual vendor (e.g. Icinga) or were they custom built by the user or someone else?
  • Are these release packages or devel snapshots?

I know, that's not possible to determine on every platform but where we can, we should collect the information.

Background: At least once we took some time hunting down a bug only to realize that the user had built custom packages using wrong libraries. The tool worked more or less but had some issues that were directly linked to using the wrong libraries. Since this is all but common it took us quite a while to find out.

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Locate where support-collector gathers installed-package information and review the platform-specific metadata available; done means recording vendor provenance and distinguishing release packages from development snapshots wherever the platform permits.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
operating-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
32/100

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