[naemon-users] naemon rpm package questions

[Sven Nierlein]

Hi Franky,

When installing the "naemon" package, you get the naemon-suite, containing
core, livestatus and thruk in a working bundle.
It's possible to install all components standalone, thats why we splitted
the packages into submodules. Neither naemon-core nor thruk requires livestatus
to run, thats why the dependency is only in the naemon meta package where you
get the hole bundle.

Xinetd would be possible for livestatus but shouldn't be enabled by default. Pull
requests are welcome.

PNP should work without the gearman package unless you want to use the gearman
mode.

 Sven


On 16.04.2014 16:18, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> I'm trying out naemon right now, but saw some weird rpm package dependencies:
> - naemon requires naemon-thruk
> - naemon requires naemon-livestatus
> 
> In the spirit of modularity (like advocated on http://www.naemon.org/suite.html),
> is it not more logical to keep thruk seperated from naemon? But of course if
> the thruk maintainer is willing to keep/provide thruk and naemon-thruk, that's fine
> by me :-)
> The same goes for naemon-livestatus, but I understand that there currently is a
> difference in this code and the one from mk-livestatus.
> But since it is in fact naemon-thruk and naemon-core that need livestatus, I think
> it is more correct to move the dependency on naemon-livestatus to the naemon-core
> and naemon-thruk packages.
> 
> Also, concerning the package naemon-livestatus: could you also include a xinetd service
> for it (like the mk-livestatus rpm does)? So when installing thruk on a remote server, it's
> easier to get it to work.
> 
> And a last small thingie: if one uses pnp4nagios and connecting that to naemon via
> livestatus, the perl module perl-Gearman is needed. Unfortunately there is no rpm for
> it, so would you consider creating one? The source can be found at cpan:
> http://search.cpan.org/~dormando/Gearman/
> I can provide a spec file for it if wanted. I saw that on the labs.consol.de repo there
> are other perl modules provided too, so I guess this should be easy for you guys :-)
> 
> Franky
>