[Nagiosplug-devel] RPM/Debian packaging
Dag Wieers
dag at wieers.com
Fri Jun 16 18:37:47 CEST 2006
On Sun, 14 May 2006, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> I am looking at the issues packagers are having with the plugins distribution.
>
> I would like to see what we can do to resolve them. Can package maintainers
> provide some comments and feedback on the direction we should be heading?
Package the nagios-plugins package is hard for various reasons.
+ It requires a lot of development stuff to be available during the
build. A lot of these requirements however should not be part of the
target system. (And vice-versa, not all the requirements that are
necessary on the target system are essentially needed on the
buildsystem)
+ The configure script does not understand the distinction between the
build-system and the target system. For example, it assumes in certain
places that the system we're creating the package is the target system.
> I am open to generating multiple binary RPMs from the single src.rpm
Well, I'm not sure if that would improve the situation. It's hardly an
option to create 1 RPM package per plugin. Nor is it a good idea to put
_all_ requirements into the single nagios-plugins RPM package.
I know what we're doing currently is not the best way. But it's the most
practical way for people to install the nagios-plugins. Even if it means
they have to select and install the requirements themselves that certain
plugins need.
Apart from improving the build/install system (which I think we really
ought to do) the resulting package, for practical reasons, will most
likely be identical to what I currently provide.
But I'm open to discuss :)
Kind regards,
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