Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 21:48:34 +0200 From: Ruben <mail@rubenvos.com> To: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: net-mgmt/nrpe-ssl : installing on an icinga2 host results in conflict Message-ID: <7b767946-1505-b99d-50c0-51de7a8217c5@rubenvos.com> In-Reply-To: <9bed9720-b21d-fae0-3d45-ddc8ae4e6205@rubenvos.com> References: <2b0992e2-cf3a-25d6-29b5-99fc5d1f3885@rubenvos.com> <ba3b39a4-c0e7-5f6a-abca-683e96d91eb0@FreeBSD.org> <9bed9720-b21d-fae0-3d45-ddc8ae4e6205@rubenvos.com>
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Hi, Just to follow up: the suggested workaround of building the package myself solved my particular problem. Did not even need to manually set an option, the already installed plugins were selected automatically. Regards, Ruben On 06/09/17 10:08, Ruben wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > > Interesting. > > > Thank you very much for shedding some light/history on this situation. > Ill switch to compiling the nrpe port manually for this particular server. > > > Kind regards, > > > Ruben > > > > > > On 06/09/17 08:42, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> On 06/09/2017 00:55, Ruben wrote: >>> I'm running an icinga2 installation on a 11.1 system, it works well. >>> >>> >>> Trying to install the check_nrpe binary (so the icinga installation can >>> query nrpe checks defined on "clients") using pkg turns out to be a >>> little troublesome though. When I try to install the nrpe-ssl package, >>> pkg complains that there is a conflict between nrpe-ssl dependency >>> 'nagios-plugins' and the installed package 'monitoring-plugins' : >>> >>> >>> - monitoring-plugins-2.2_2 conflicts with nagios-plugins-2.2.1_4,1 on >>> /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_apt >>> >>> >>> the suggested solution of removing the icinga server package is >>> unacceptable in my situation. Since net-mgmt/icinga2 explicitly lists >>> monitoring-plugins as a requirement, it seems a little strange as well. >>> >>> >>> Does somebody have any advice? Am I trying to install the wrong package? >>> Or should I perhaps file a bug report? >>> >>> >>> Any feedback appreciated :) >> This is a result of a systemic problem with the ports where there is a >> lack of support for alternate dependencies. (It's not pkg going wrong >> per se: pkg has to work with what the ports gives it, and the ports >> doesn't give it any way of dealing with this problem. Yet.) >> >> The trouble here results originally from the fork between nagios and >> icinga. nagios has the nagios-plugins port, and icinga has the >> monitoring-plugins port where the essential difference between >> nagios-plugins and monitoring-plugins is what each depends on. >> Unfortunately for many monitoring plugins, there aren't similar >> duplicate ports -- one for nagios and the other for icinga -- in the >> same way. So despite the fact that the nagios plugins could work >> perfectly well with icinga, you're going to run into this sort of >> incompatibility. >> >> This really only affects the pre-compiled packages. You can build the >> net-mgmt/nrpe port yourself with the dependency switched to >> monitoring-plugins by setting OPTIONS for the port. Which is merely one >> instance of a problem with the whole pre-compiled package setup in >> FreeBSD at the moment. There are a number of fairly important changes >> to the ports in development that will largely solve this sort of >> problem, but progress is slow and I can't say when those will actually >> be implemented. >> >> At the moment, I'm afraid your best answer is to build your own ports >> with the options settings you require. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Matthew >>
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