[naemon-dev] first debian / ubuntu packages - Install problem with official check-mk-livestatus package installed

[Sven Nierlein]

On 12/13/13 12:50, Sven Velt wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Sven Nierlein wrote:
>> The first packages for debian and ubuntu are finished and ready for testing.
>> You can download them here
>> -> http://labs.consol.de/naemon/testing/
> Thanks Sven!
>
> I want to install "naemon" (meta package) from this repo on my hosted
> Debian/Squeeze monitoring box and it failed with:
>
> | Unpacking naemon-livestatus (from .../naemon-livestatus_0.0.1_i386.deb) ...
> | dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/naemon-livestatus_0.0.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
> |  trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/unixcat', which is also in package check-mk-livestatus 1.1.12p7-1~bpo60+1
>
> ... as there's already the official "check-mk-livestatus" package.
>
> Quick fix for me:
>
> | dpkg-divert --package naemon-livestatus --divert /usr/bin/unixcat.foo --rename /usr/bin/unixcat
>
> which renames "/usr/bin/unixcat" from "check-mk-livestatus" to
> "/usr/bin/unixcat.foo" and puts "naemon-livestatus" version of unixcat
> to "/usr/bin/unixcat"
>
> Why "check-mk-livestatus" AND "naemon-livestatus"? The first contains
> the module for "nagios3" and "icinga" packages which is not compatible
> with Nagios4/Naemon due to API changes.
>
> To fix this I suggest to put "unixcat" from "naemon-livestatus" somewhere into
> "/usr/lib/naemon/".

Hi Sven,

thanks for your feedback. I will rename the unixcat in the naemon pkg. It is not used atm anyway.

Cheers,
 Sven