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-rw-r--r--doc/smokeping_upgrade.pod8
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 9adbd30..bc2b129 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+* document the LWP dependency of the Smokeping::Slave module -- niko
* fix restart behaviour of clients in multiprocess mode. now we just send
ourself a SIGHUP and let 'it' happen -- tobi
diff --git a/doc/smokeping_install.pod b/doc/smokeping_install.pod
index cd5f936..50d632d 100644
--- a/doc/smokeping_install.pod
+++ b/doc/smokeping_install.pod
@@ -61,12 +61,18 @@ L<http://www.openssh.org/>
You need this for the SSH probe.
-=item Various Perl modules (Optional)
+=item Various Perl modules (Most of these are optional)
You can get these from L<http://www.cpan.org/>.
=over
+=item libwww-perl
+
+The master/slave functionality introduced a dependency LWP::UserAgent
+from the libwww-perl (also known as LWP) library. Currently the module
+is needed even if the master/slave mode is not enabled.
+
=item Socket6 0.11-1
Optionally installing the Socket6 module for perl enables
diff --git a/doc/smokeping_upgrade.pod b/doc/smokeping_upgrade.pod
index bd2cbe0..b89fdb3 100644
--- a/doc/smokeping_upgrade.pod
+++ b/doc/smokeping_upgrade.pod
@@ -23,6 +23,14 @@ An official list of changes with each release can be found in the CHANGES
file in the Smokeping distribution. This document tries to complement
that with upgrading instructions etc.
+=head1 2.1.x to 2.2.0
+
+=head2 LWP Dependency
+
+The new master/slave functionality needs the LWP::UserAgent module from
+CPAN. Currently the dependency is not optional; you'll need the module
+even if you are only running one Smokeping instance.
+
=head1 2.0.9 to 2.1.0
=head2 Echoping 6 support