[Pkg-nagios-devel] Suggested re-work of nagios-plugin's control file

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

after re-working nagios2's control file, and trying to understand the
relationship of the nagios-plugins packages, I have re-worked
nagios-plugins' package descriptions as well. Please consider the
attached patch.

Greetings
Marc

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Index: debian/control
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pkg-nagios/nagios-plugins/debian/control,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 control
--- debian/control	27 Oct 2005 14:14:57 -0000	1.5
+++ debian/control	20 Dec 2005 18:28:15 -0000
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 Depends: nagios-plugins-basic, nagios-plugins-standard
 Suggests: nagios-text | nagios
 Description: Plugins for the nagios network monitoring and management system
+ meta-package installing the entire suite of plugins for nagios.
+ .
  Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring and management system. It has
  the following features:
  .
@@ -22,11 +24,6 @@
   *  Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events
      (for proactive problem resolution)
   *  Web output (current status, notifications, history, log file, etc.)
- .
- This meta-package will install the entire suite of plugins for nagios.
- If you are installing nagios plugins on a remote "satellite" server
- (using nagios-nrpe-server or nsca), you may be interested in the
- nagios-plugins-basic package.
 
 Package: nagios-plugins-basic
 Architecture: any
@@ -35,6 +32,14 @@
 Replaces: nagios-plugins
 Suggests: nagios-text | nagios
 Description: Plugins for the nagios network monitoring and management system
+ includes plugins for ircd, logs, sensors, mail queue, file age, dhcp
+ server, disk space, http, load, network statistics, real, smtp, ssh,
+ time, ups, logged in users, processes, nagios itself, swap space,
+ DNS, Windows services, generic tcp, generic udp, icmp, a dummy
+ plugin, and a plugin to invoke plugins on other hosts via ssh.
+ .
+ The included plugins share a modest list of dependencies.
+ .
  Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring and management system. It has
  the following features:
  .
@@ -46,19 +51,21 @@
   *  Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events
      (for proactive problem resolution)
   *  Web output (current status, notifications, history, log file, etc.)
- .
- This package provides a basic set of plugins with minimal external
- dependencies.  It is not likely to be useful by itself unless you are
- installing a remote "satellite" server (using nagios-nrpe-server or nsca,
- for example).
 
 Package: nagios-plugins-standard
 Architecture: any
 Conflicts: nagios-plugins (<= 1.4.2-3)
 Replaces: nagios-plugins
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, fping, qstat, snmp, radiusclient1, libnet-snmp-perl, iputils-ping, dnsutils, bind9-host | host, ntpdate, ntp, smbclient
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, nagios-plugins-basic, fping, qstat, snmp, radiusclient1, libnet-snmp-perl, iputils-ping, dnsutils, bind9-host | host, ntpdate, ntp, smbclient
 Suggests: nagios-text | nagios
 Description: Plugins for the nagios network monitoring and management system
+ includes plugins for DNS, SNMP, LDAP, RADIUS, NTP, RPC, SMB disk
+ space, network round trip time measuring, network interfaces,
+ database servers, wireless network signal strength, printers, game
+ servers and flexlm license manager.
+ .
+ The plugins in this package have more demanding dependencies.
+ .
  Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring and management system. It has
  the following features:
  .
@@ -70,6 +77,3 @@
   *  Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events
      (for proactive problem resolution)
   *  Web output (current status, notifications, history, log file, etc.)
- .
- This package provides the suite of plugins that are most likely to be
- useful on a central nagios host.