[Nagiosplug-devel] Re: [Netsaintplug-devel] Re: netsaint-plugins-1.2.9-4.rpm dependancy breaks on RH 7.2

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 10:38, Terje Bless wrote:
> Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh at sghosh.org> wrote:

> >perhaps - having the rpm being dependent on openssl0.9.6a and flag a
> >warning during install would be better.
> 
> Well, either make the depandance explicit (on libssl.so.1, I think, not
> OpenSSL 0.9.6a) or produce a new, "bug fix" version that will work with
> OpenSSL >= 0.9.6b (IOW, libssl.so.2).
> 
> Many people will be running 0.0.7 in production until Nagios 1.0 goes final
> -- and a little longer even, probably -- and silently failing to detect an
> error is about the worst failure mode you can have. And "check_http" isn't
> exactly an obscure and little used plugin.
> 
> Requiring libssl.so.1 will prevent installing netsaint-plugins on stock Red
> Hat 7.2!

can't you just install openssl096-0.9.6-6 from the distribution CD?

Granted, the library is there for compatibility purposes, but IMHO being
unwilling to go to disk 2 does not define 'stock RedHat 7.2'

That being said, I will try and get an updated RPM posted.