Nagios-plugins packaging change broke my Nagios (plugins moved out of "nagios-plugins" to "nagios-plugins-all")

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:17:16 -0700
Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli.tech at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow.  When I ran "yum update" recently on my Nagios server, it broke
> our Nagios, as nagios plugins used to be in "nagios-plugins" package
> but now it's just a stub, and the nagios plugins are packaged
> individually.
> 
> I fixed it with installing "nagios-plugins-all".
> 
> I am sure there was a reason for the packaging change but it was not
> implemented gracefully...  Wouldn't it have been better to deprecate
> the nagios-plugins package and stop updating it rather than replacing
> it with a stub that effectively broke a working Nagios installation?

It's been packaged that way in Fedora for as long as I can recall. 

What version of Fedora? What version of nagios were you running before? 
(You can check /var/log/rpmpkgs from the previous day). 

Perhaps it was a 3rd party nagios version?

kevin
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