Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Peter Eckel <li...@eckel-edv.de> wrote:
> Hi Jered,
>
>> This issue was raised by another user yesterday -- Peter Eckel suggested 
>> reviewing the upgrading notes regarding sysconfig at 
>> https://www.icinga.com/docs/icinga2/latest/doc/16-upgrading-icinga-2/
>
> I don't thing this is the same issue.
>
> Usman's problem seems to be related to a missing library 
> libmysql_shim.so.2.9.0. In RHEL/CentOS that library is part of the 
> icinga2-ido-mysql-2.9.0-1 package. As we don't know whether this is a new 
> install or an update it's difficult to tell, but I would suspect it's a new 
> installation and he missed installing the icinga2-ido-mysql package.
>

Yes, it is a new installation. I am on a new SLE-SP3.  I did install
the icinga2-ido-mysql package.  And there is
/usr/lib64/icinga2/libmysql_shim.so.2.9.0. But but it cannot be found.
One thing I used CMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON while building. Is this the
problem?

Usman


>> This all creates a wishlist for me regarding package managers -- on Debian 
>> it's never apparent when an upgrade should require careful review of 
>> documentation due to the potential for breaking changes.  I wish there was a 
>> flag so that apt-get would say "no, dummy, go read the notes first!"  
>> Creating new dummy package dependencies can have this effect, but it's 
>> definitely not the right way to do it.
>
> At least with RPM you can implement OS commands to be executed on 
> installation, deinstallation, or update, which makes it easily possible to 
> point the user at important information such as upgrade notes or clean up 
> stuff that might have accumulated from older versions and is no longer needed 
> or would breaking an upgrade. I would assume that this is also the case for 
> the Debian package manager (I haven't packages stuff for Debian yet, so I 
> can't tell for sure). The package maintainer "just" has to do it.
>
> This can, however, be quite a pain in the backside if you want to cater for 
> all versions a user might upgrade from, so I understand fully that most 
> maintainers don't bother.
>
>   Peter.
>
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