[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#555532: Bug#555532: nagios: uninstallable/unbuildable on non-linux

[Petr Salinger]

>> You can of course conditionalize build-dependencies and dependencies based
>> on architecture. This way configuration on linux could remain the same
>> (no regression) and on previously uninstallable architectures
>> there could be limited functionality (improvement). See bellow for idea.
>
> I have prepared a package[1], could you please test, if that is building
> correctly on non-linux?

Many thanks, it seems to build fine.
It remains to similarly alter nagios package - #555562.

> I just changed the check_ping calls on my test environment to "check_ping -t
> 15", while inetutils-ping was used and did had a look .. but didn't recognized
> any significant changes, but my testenvironment just has ~20 hosts. I can
> raised that to 20 seconds, but in the worst case sysadmins have 10 seconds
> reaction time lost. :) Dunno if this is such a clever idea.

Well, it looks like we need ping capable of "-w deadline" option.
I asked for it - #565137.

Anyway, the current situation is significant improvement over old one.

Thanks

 	Petr