Logstash 6.x plugins installation and updates

[Mark Felder]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, at 11:03, news via freebsd-elastic wrote:
> 
> the expr error is probably a syntax error because it's trying to use gnu  
> expr and not the one we have on FreeBSD.
> 

Good catch.

> The installation of the plugin I tried(logstash-output-plugin) seems to  
> work. Also I used a working configuration from a linux setup I have on  
> production and it didn't produce any errors.
> 
> The big problems start when I try to update the included plugins, which  
> can cause also problems if a plugin needs an updated version of a  
> installed plugin(if we try to install the logstash-output-influxdb plugin  
> on logstash5 port we can see it tries to update the logstash-core plugin  
> and it fails)
> 

Is logstash-core a plugin or part of the  software installed by the package? (I'm not familiar with the plugins for logstash)

Alternatively we could try our hand at packaging plugins, but if they have a lot of dependencies it could lead us down a rabbithole...

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  Mark Felder
  ports-secteam & portmgr member
  feld at FreeBSD.org