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

Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.tech at gmail.com
Thu Apr 15 01:01:32 UTC 2010


On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> 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


Hi, Kevin.

  The source of my nagios-plugins package is the EPEL repository from
the Fedora Project.   I installed Nagios about a year and a half ago.

Thanks,
Aleksey


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