[Pkg-nagios-devel] Re: Bug#341748: ITP: nagios2 -- A host/service/network monitoring and management system

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:41:17PM -0500, Sean Finney wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 05:58:37PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > > However, the resulting packages don't seem to be installable, since
> > > > nagios2-common conflicts with nagios-text, which nagios2 provides. I
> > > > will fix that tonight, but you might want to inspect the svn
> > > > repository before.
> > > 
> > > ah, yes.  i suppose that should be
> > > 
> > > nagios2-common: depends on nagios2, conflicts/replaces nagios-common
> > > nagios2: conflicts/replaces nagios-text
> > > 
> > > or something like that.  the idea is that room is left for starting
> > > a transition over from nagios-text (though not necessarily -mysql
> > > and -pgsql, because nagios2 doesn't have rdbms support without
> > > some external add-on module which may or may not yet exist afaik).
> > 
> > How about allowing nagios and nagios2 to completly co-exist?
> 
> let's just say i'm very skeptical of the benefits of doing so,
> especially given the limited resources (maintainer-power) available.

It would greatly ease the dependency challenge. Allowing nagios 1 and
nagios2 to co-exist doesn't mean that nagios 1 will still be in etch,
and it doesn't mean that this combination is supported.

> > > i'll send something to pkg-nagios-devel later tonight about all of this.
> > 
> > I didn't see anything yet.
> 
> really?  i promise i sent something... the list archives agree with me :)

That message doesn't say anything about the dependencies though.

Greetings
Marc

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