[packagers] nagios plugins

[Gavin Carr]

Hi Chris,

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:43:25PM +0200, Christoph Maser wrote:
> Nagios Conference 2007 just finished and it was a really nice
> conference. Amongst other speakers Ton Von (project lead of
> nagios-plugins) had a talk about state and roadmap of the project. In
> this talk he mentioned that the next major release (version 1.5, no
> timeplan for release yet) will in default configuration ship and install
> Nagios::Plugin and all other perl-modules it depends on.
> 
> Personally i don't like that idea but in a short discussion with Ton and
> the other core members it became clear they won't change it but they do
> provide a configure flag to disable perl-module installation. I thought
> i'd tell you before anyone gets the next (pre)release so you know what
> is coming up.
> 
> My personal proposal for building nagios-plugins 1.5 would be disable
> module-building and set a dependency on perl-Nagios-Plugin and package
> that seperatly beforehand from CPAN. I already have a version of that
> since i use actively ->
> http://members.financial.com/~cmr/rpmforge/perl-Nagios-Plugin/

FWIW, as one of the authors of Nagios::Plugin, I'd support going that 
route when using a real packaging system. Shipping N::P itself and all
its dependencies with nagios-plugins is more intended for environments 
without real packaging systems, or for people installing from tarballs 
by hand.

So +1 from me.

Cheers,
Gavin


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