Austin S. Hemmelgarn

I've sent an upstream report to PackageCloud, and will post here when there are any updates. I'm also going to update our install documentation to indicate what's required to use...

Still have not heard back from PackageCloud on this. There's been some internal discussion of moving to self-hosting our own repos (though that's kind of stalled at the moment pending...

Indeed, it should theoretically be doable now, it's just not currently top priority. It doesn't matter much for this issue though until we get #7773 dealt with, because we should...

We’re in the process of (finally) migrating to self-hosted package repositories, which will provide unencrypted HTTP access.

Possible partial fix here: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/discussions/12179 95% of the issues around this are because it’s a shell script that was cobbled together in a hurry early on in the life of...

The particular case mentioned in the OP is indeed that, but the general information is that this is a problem regardless of _why_ the claiming fails.

OK, so IOW we _do_ want to support random unknown installation types such as users building _by hand_ on their own system or installing through their system package manager? Because...

> Wait! "we do not care" ? No, we do care about every single netdata install. But this "care" has many different weights. > > I don't mind about automatically...

I generally agree that the preallocated space solution should probably be the default here (and I’m 99% certain that there is a way to get SQLite to preallocate space too)....

Reopening, because there are probably still some issues here. The packaging side of things _should_ be resolved though, so I’m unassigning myself and removing that label.