Hi,
It's not present in RHEL7, but it is in the EPEL7 repo as of a few months ago (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381509), so I switched the default build option on on it. Since fping is in EPEL as well, I figure that's probably a safe option for the server install, but I'm realizing that the *xymon-client* package might be installed on more boxes without it, depending on the environment. (Especially since, unlike on EL6, lz4 is brought in in the base OS in EL7.)
I can definitely see that as reason to switch it back, if there are concerns about EPEL accessibility. I had really just wanted to avoid a situation where dash (a shell, after all) was being included via the xymon repo itself.
While there's still a fair amount of shell forking in the client (obviously), the shell wrappers that used to be used for calling CGI scripts are long-gone, so some of the pressure for performance/security is reduced a little.
-jc
On 5/6/2019 9:00 AM, Mike Burger wrote:
dash is, however, available for EL7 from epel, should it be deemed necessary.
On 2019-05-04 05:07, Matt Vander Werf wrote:
Hi J.C.,
Thanks for getting these created!
I tried to install it on a RHEL 7 system, but it looks like it's
trying to pull in dash as a dependency. I believe that should only be
a dependency for RHEL 6, since dash is not in the normal repos for
RHEL 7, correct? At least that has been the case in the past.
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package xymon-client.x86_64 0:4.3.28-1.el7 will be updated
---> Package xymon-client.x86_64 0:4.3.29-0.6.el7 will be an update
--> Processing Dependency: /bin/dash for package:
xymon-client-4.3.29-0.6.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: /bin/dash for package:
xymon-client-4.3.29-0.6.el7.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: xymon-client-4.3.29-0.6.el7.x86_64 (xymon-testing)
Requires: /bin/dash
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Error: Package: xymon-client-4.3.29-0.6.el7.x86_64 (xymon-testing)
Requires: /bin/dash
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
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On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 8:24 PM Japheth Cleaver
<user-87556346d4af@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hello all,
The "xymon-testing" repo
(https://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/testing/)
has been updated with packages for RHEL6, EL7 and F28-30.
These are labeled as 4.3.29-0.6 and correspond to commit (r8066).
This
wasn't intended directly to be a release candidate, but I had
changes in
the patchset that needed to be iterated on in the build process. (An
EL5
build is coming.)
For the intrepid, please let me know if you notice any unusual
issues on
install. There will be more commits before the actual release.
Regards,
-jc