[users] Broken package: Package nagios-plugins-dhcp / nagios-plugins-setuid

[Nico Schottelius]

Hello,

trying to install nagios-plugins-all results in the following error:

/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install nagios-plugins-all:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package nagios-plugins-dhcp is obsoleted by nagios-plugins-setuid, but obsoleting package does not provide for requirements
Package nagios-plugins-icmp is obsoleted by nagios-plugins-setuid, but obsoleting package does not provide for requirements
Package nagios-plugins-dhcp is obsoleted by nagios-plugins-setuid, but obsoleting package does not provide for requirements
Package nagios-plugins-icmp is obsoleted by nagios-plugins-setuid, but obsoleting package does not provide for requirements
Package nagios-plugins-dhcp is obsoleted by nagios-plugins-setuid, but obsoleting package does not provide for requirements
Error: Package: nagios-plugins-all-1.4.15-2.el6.x86_64 (EPEL)
Requires: nagios-plugins-dhcp
Available: nagios-plugins-dhcp-1.4.15-2.el6.x86_64 (EPEL)
nagios-plugins-dhcp = 1.4.15-2.el6
Error: Package: nagios-plugins-all-1.4.15-2.el6.x86_64 (EPEL)
Requires: nagios-plugins-icmp
Available: nagios-plugins-icmp-1.4.15-2.el6.x86_64 (EPEL)
nagios-plugins-icmp = 1.4.15-2.el6
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm using CentOS 6 with those packages coming from repoforge.

Is this the right list to report / what is the usual approach to fix this
situation?

Cheers,

Nico

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Nico Schottelius

Post by Nico Schottelius
Hello,

That's part of your problem, right there. nagios-plugins-all is from
EPEL. It's a meta package, a list of the nagios plugins provided by
EPEL. But the naming scheme of plugins is different between EPEL and
RPMforge. RPMforge has most of them in the nagios-plugins package
itself, and splits off a few of them into the nagios-plugins-setuid
package, including the check_dhcp.

EPEL splits more of the checks into individual packages, such as
nagios-plugins-dhcp, and chaos is ensuing due to the obsolecence and
merging. If you wind up mixing and matching plugins from the different
repos, I *guarantee* chaos whenever the numbering of the basic
'nagios-plugins' package changes, because the one from RPMforge has
most of the plugins, and the one from EPEL has only the structure for
the *other* packages and plugins. When the 'nagios-plugins' in EPEL
updates ahead of Repoforge, it's going to erase a bunch of plugins
that were in Repoforge. This isn't the case today, but it can lead to
craziness, which I've run into in the past, and dealt with by using
exclude options in the /etc/yum.repos.d files.

In this case, I appreciate the EPEL structure, because it allows me to
install the packages individually as needed. But it's extra work to
maintain, and you wind up with adventures like this one. It would seem
reasonable for the "nagios-plugins-setuid" package from RPMforge to
say "Provides: nagios-plugins-dhcp".

The diff would be something like this:

$ diff -u nagios-plugins.spec.orig nagios-plugins.spec
--- nagios-plugins.spec.orig 2010-11-26 11:22:13.000000000 -0500
+++ nagios-plugins.spec 2012-01-23 07:09:05.102005260 -0500
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
Summary: Host/service/network monitoring program plugins for Nagios
Name: nagios-plugins
Version: 1.4.15
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Release: 3%{?dist}
License: GPL
Group: Applications/System
URL: http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/
@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@
Obsoletes: nagios-plugins-icmp <= %{version}-%{release}
Obsoletes: nagios-plugins-dhcp <= %{version}-%{release}

+Provides: nagios-plugins-icmp = %{version}-%{release}
+Provides: nagios-plugins-dhcpp = %{version}-%{release}
+
%description setuid
This package contains the setuid plugins necessary for use with the
Nagios package.
@@ -325,6 +328,10 @@
%{_libdir}/nagios/plugins/check_icmp

%changelog
+* Mon Jan 23 201 Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> - 14.15-3
+- Add Provides: nagios-plugins-dhcp and nagios-plugins-icmp for
+ obsoleted components in nagios-plugins-setuid.
+
* Fri Nov 26 2010 Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> - 14.15-2
- Rebuild against radiusclient-ng 0.5.6.

[David Hrbáč]

It would seem reasonable for the "nagios-plugins-setuid" package from
RPMforge to say "Provides: nagios-plugins-dhcp". The diff would be

Nico,
Off the list to GitHub with the patch. Thanks,
DH

[David Hrbáč]

It would seem reasonable for the "nagios-plugins-setuid" package from
RPMforge to say "Provides: nagios-plugins-dhcp". The diff would be

Nico,
Off the list to GitHub with the patch. Thanks,
DH

[Nico Schottelius]

Hello,

trying to install nagios-plugins-all results in the following error:

/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install nagios-plugins-all:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package nagios-plugins-dhcp is obsoleted by nagios-plugins-setuid, but obsoleting package does not provide for requirements
Package nagios-plugins-icmp is obsoleted by nagios-plugins-setuid, but obsoleting package does not provide for requirements
Package nagios-plugins-dhcp is obsoleted by nagios-plugins-setuid, but obsoleting package does not provide for requirements
Package nagios-plugins-icmp is obsoleted by nagios-plugins-setuid, but obsoleting package does not provide for requirements
Package nagios-plugins-dhcp is obsoleted by nagios-plugins-setuid, but obsoleting package does not provide for requirements
Error: Package: nagios-plugins-all-1.4.15-2.el6.x86_64 (EPEL)
Requires: nagios-plugins-dhcp
Available: nagios-plugins-dhcp-1.4.15-2.el6.x86_64 (EPEL)
nagios-plugins-dhcp = 1.4.15-2.el6
Error: Package: nagios-plugins-all-1.4.15-2.el6.x86_64 (EPEL)
Requires: nagios-plugins-icmp
Available: nagios-plugins-icmp-1.4.15-2.el6.x86_64 (EPEL)
nagios-plugins-icmp = 1.4.15-2.el6
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm using CentOS 6 with those packages coming from repoforge.

Is this the right list to report / what is the usual approach to fix this
situation?

Cheers,

Nico

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:20 AM, Nico Schottelius

Post by Nico Schottelius
Hello,

That's part of your problem, right there. nagios-plugins-all is from
EPEL. It's a meta package, a list of the nagios plugins provided by
EPEL. But the naming scheme of plugins is different between EPEL and
RPMforge. RPMforge has most of them in the nagios-plugins package
itself, and splits off a few of them into the nagios-plugins-setuid
package, including the check_dhcp.

EPEL splits more of the checks into individual packages, such as
nagios-plugins-dhcp, and chaos is ensuing due to the obsolecence and
merging. If you wind up mixing and matching plugins from the different
repos, I *guarantee* chaos whenever the numbering of the basic
'nagios-plugins' package changes, because the one from RPMforge has
most of the plugins, and the one from EPEL has only the structure for
the *other* packages and plugins. When the 'nagios-plugins' in EPEL
updates ahead of Repoforge, it's going to erase a bunch of plugins
that were in Repoforge. This isn't the case today, but it can lead to
craziness, which I've run into in the past, and dealt with by using
exclude options in the /etc/yum.repos.d files.

In this case, I appreciate the EPEL structure, because it allows me to
install the packages individually as needed. But it's extra work to
maintain, and you wind up with adventures like this one. It would seem
reasonable for the "nagios-plugins-setuid" package from RPMforge to
say "Provides: nagios-plugins-dhcp".

The diff would be something like this:

$ diff -u nagios-plugins.spec.orig nagios-plugins.spec
--- nagios-plugins.spec.orig 2010-11-26 11:22:13.000000000 -0500
+++ nagios-plugins.spec 2012-01-23 07:09:05.102005260 -0500
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
Summary: Host/service/network monitoring program plugins for Nagios
Name: nagios-plugins
Version: 1.4.15
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Release: 3%{?dist}
License: GPL
Group: Applications/System
URL: http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/
@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@
Obsoletes: nagios-plugins-icmp <= %{version}-%{release}
Obsoletes: nagios-plugins-dhcp <= %{version}-%{release}

+Provides: nagios-plugins-icmp = %{version}-%{release}
+Provides: nagios-plugins-dhcpp = %{version}-%{release}
+
%description setuid
This package contains the setuid plugins necessary for use with the
Nagios package.
@@ -325,6 +328,10 @@
%{_libdir}/nagios/plugins/check_icmp

%changelog
+* Mon Jan 23 201 Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> - 14.15-3
+- Add Provides: nagios-plugins-dhcp and nagios-plugins-icmp for
+ obsoleted components in nagios-plugins-setuid.
+
* Fri Nov 26 2010 Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> - 14.15-2
- Rebuild against radiusclient-ng 0.5.6.