[packagers] nagios-plugins patch

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Gavin Carr wrote:

> The current nagios-plugins package is missing the setuid plugins 
> (check_icmp and check_dns at least) because the nagios-plugins guys
> split them out into a separate install target, 'make install-root'.
> 
> The attached patch fixes the spec file to install with that target
> as well.
> 
> Note that it doesn't make the plugins setuid. Is there any kind of
> rpmforge policy on setuid binaries? If they're okay, what's the 
> best way to make them setuid? A files section like:
> 
> %{_libdir}/nagios/plugins/
> %attr(04755,root,root) %{_libdir}/nagios/plugins/check_icmp
> %attr(04755,root,root) %{_libdir}/nagios/plugins/check_dns
> 
> and ignore the duplicate item warnings?

I tried to stay away from setuid binaries (leaving it up to the user to 
make something setud if they like). In this case I opted to create a 
setuid subpackage that holds the setuid plugins.

Kind regards,
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