difference of nagios-plugins vs nagios-plugins-all rpm

tripialos · 12-11-2017, 09:09 AM

I am abit confused as to the purpose of those two rpm packages installed from epel repository. As far as i can see , nagios-plugins package just installs a few scripts:

Code:

/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/negate
/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/urlize
/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/utils.sh
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/CODING
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/LEGAL
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/README
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/README.Fedora
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/REQUIREMENTS
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/SUPPORT
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/THANKS
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/nagios-plugins.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/nagios-plugins.mo

And the package nagios-plugins-all contains the actual plugins:

Code:

Installing for dependencies:
 nagios-plugins                         x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel               251 k
 nagios-plugins-breeze                  x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                18 k
 nagios-plugins-by_ssh                  x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                44 k
 nagios-plugins-cluster                 x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                37 k
 nagios-plugins-dhcp                    x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                44 k
 nagios-plugins-dig                     x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                44 k
 nagios-plugins-disk                    x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                45 k
 nagios-plugins-disk_smb                x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                21 k
 nagios-plugins-dns                     x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                45 k
 nagios-plugins-dummy                   x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                33 k
 nagios-plugins-file_age                x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                19 k
 nagios-plugins-flexlm                  x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                20 k
 nagios-plugins-fping                   x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                43 k
 nagios-plugins-game                    x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                39 k
 nagios-plugins-hpjd                    x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                42 k
 nagios-plugins-http                    x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                60 k
 nagios-plugins-icmp                    x86_64

What is the purpose of nagios-plugins package and utils.sh ?
Why two separate packages?

MadeInGermany · 12-13-2017, 01:33 PM

I think some of the nagios plugins read the utils.sh - that explains the dependency.

Why it was divided? Don't know.
On SuSE I have even met packages with mutual/circular dependencies: you can install them all or none of them.