[Pkg-nagios-devel] final changes for upstream release

[sean finney]

so, apparently 2.0 is out the door.

i'd like to make 3 rather superficial last-minute changes,
and discuss one potentially larger change, and then send
things on their way:

- change in configuration file naming.  i'd like to change
  /etc/nagios2/conf.d/nagios2-common_foo.cfg to
  /etc/nagios2/conf.d/foo_nagios2.cfg.
  i think keeping nagios2 in the name is helpful to
  identify it as something we put there (regardless of
  whether or not anything actually makes use of it it's
  informative), but for tab-key preservation etc it
  makes the most sense to me to but the most significant
  bits first hence the switch of ordering.

- man page for nagios2 and nagios2stats.  i'll get started on this.

- a brief general description of our configuration methodology
  in README.Debian?

- a change in the recommended procedure for manually configuring
  external checks.  after setting check_external_commands=1:

  /etc/init.d/nagios2 stop
  dpkg-statoverride --update --add nagios www-data 2710 /var/lib/nagios2/rw
  /etc/init.d/nagios2 start

  however we have to make a slight change in our postinsts to
  not overwrite this. instead of:

      install -d -onagios -gnagios -m750 /var/lib/nagios2/rw

  we'd just do

      chown nagios /var/lib/nagios2/rw

  and we'd have to make sure the dir is be shipped in the nagios2-common
  deb as root:www-data/0700.  this way setgid permission changes would
  be respected across upgrades, and we wouldn't need to create another
  system user.

- finally, put in some debconf/maintscript support for the above.
  (though defaulting to leaving it off).  the trickiest part of this is
  that there's a cfg file setting that needs to be changed, which makes
  things somewhat complicated.  the *wrong* way to do this would be
  to edit the file, which is what i think the 1.x packages do.  instead
  we should split the file out into a seperate ucf-managed file,
  and reregister it via ucf every time we change it (thus preventing
  nasty unnecessary conffile prompts)

  *but* i'd rather not do such a big change before the first upload.
  soo.... my proposition is that we go ahead and move the
  setting into its own and ucf-managed file in the conf.d dir,
  and save the rest for later, which we should then be able
  to add in at our leisure without making any impact on existing systems.


so, that's my list of last-minute thoughts on the package.  thoughts?
as for timeline...  i think it'd be feasible to have something
uploaded in the next 48 hours at the latest, depending on
how controversial my suggestions turn out to be :)


	sean

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