On Thu, 12 Mar 2015, J.C. Cleaver wrote:
Hi,
Yes, in a case such as yours the main xymon server RPM is going to pull in
a few things that you don't need. Primarily, it's httpd (and whatever
httpd pulls in, such as apr and whatnot) and rrdtool (and cairo, some
display libs).
The reason httpd is a hard dependency is that some things are configured
to be owned by the apache user, and the xymon.conf apache snippet is
dropped in the directory.
It should be safe to install xymon with --nodeps to bypass those two
packages, although you'll get some complaints as it installs. Assuming
you're running ping checks, you'll want to manually pull in 'fping'. You
can ignore net-snmp-libs if you're not going to be using
xymon-snmpcollect.
The semanage stuff from policycoreutils-python is SELinux. Aside from the
error output, it should be safe to ignore that as well.
Alas, you're correct in that yum will attempt to continue to pull in
dependencies when they're available, so you'll continue to get these
warnings.
I'd given consideration to splitting things out into xymon-xymonnet,
xymon-proxy, xymon-server, xymon-xymongen and the like (in fact, a really,
really old version of the RPM did just that), but it really felt like more
complexity (and effort) than it was worth, especially since the upstream
had had unified things together.
If there's enough demand, I'm open to creating sub-packages for it. But it
does rather significantly increase complexity for people doing installs
since they have to think of the different components coming in. The flip
side is that for cases such as yours, or in micro-sized cloud/container
environments, you can install the base RPM and avoid bringing in other
dependencies.
If you decide to split things, would it be possible to create an rpm that
pulls in as deps all of the pieces so that the people who need what is contained
in the current rpms still get a complete installation?
Something similar to the following is what I am thinking about:
(shadow pts8) # rpm -qi srvadmin-all
Name : srvadmin-all
Version : 7.4.0
Release : 4.1.1.el6
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Wed 28 Jan 2015 04:26:54 PM EST
Group : System/Configuration/Hardware
Size : 9
License : Proprietary
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed 13 Mar 2013 03:01:09 AM EDT, Key ID ca77951d23b66a9d
Source RPM : srvadmin-7.4.0-4.1.1.el6.src.rpm
Build Date : Wed 13 Mar 2013 03:01:00 AM EDT
Build Host : OMLOBSWV87
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Vendor : Dell Inc
URL : http://support.dell.com
Summary : Meta package for installing all Server Administrator features, 7.4.0
Description :
Meta package that contains dependency information to automatically pull
in all base and optional Server Administrator Features.
(shadow pts8) #
Regards,
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