[Xymon] Dependencies for xymond and xymonnet (with particular reference to JC's terabithia.org RPMs)

[SebA]

Hi JC,
 
This may be off-topic for everyone else as I'm talking about an unofficial
RPM (I know), but just to get this into the mailing list archive...
 
I want to install xymon server on a system, but it will be forwarding its
results to another xymon server and therefore I have no need for web pages,
RRD files, etc.  In fact, I think I only need xymond, xymonnet and an add-on
monitor.  (Plus xymon-client.)  When I try and install your RPM, it wants to
install all sorts of things I don't want like apache and libX11 (see below).
 
Installing:
 xymon                       
Installing for dependencies:
 apr                         
 apr-util                    
 apr-util-ldap               
 audit-libs-python           
 cairo                       
 dejavu-fonts-common         
 dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts  
 dejavu-sans-mono-fonts      
 fontconfig                  
 fontpackages-filesystem     
 fping                       
 freetype                    
 httpd                       
 httpd-tools                 
 libX11                      
 libX11-common               
 libXau                      
 libXft                      
 libXrender                  
 libcgroup                   
 libselinux-python           
 libsemanage-python          
 libthai                     
 libxcb                      
 mailcap                     
 net-snmp-libs               
 pango                       
 pixman                      
 policycoreutils-python      
 rrdtool                     
 setools-libs                
 setools-libs-python         
 
Transaction Summary
=============================
Install      33 Package(s)

How should I do a minimal install?  (I have your repo mirrored, but you
can't exclude dependencies with yum AFAIK.)  I just did a:
 
# sudo rpm -i fping-3.10-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
<no errors>
# sudo rpm -i --nodeps xymon-4.3.18-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
<output below>
warning: user apache does not exist - using root
warning: group apache does not exist - using root
warning: user apache does not exist - using root
warning: group apache does not exist - using root
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 30: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or
directory
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 31: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or
directory
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 32: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or
directory
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 33: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or
directory
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 34: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or
directory
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 35: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or
directory
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5gv8Df: line 36: /usr/sbin/semanage: No such file or
directory

Realizing that I probably needed /usr/sbin/semanage at least, I did:
 
# sudo rpm -e xymon
warning: /etc/xymon/hosts.cfg saved as /etc/xymon/hosts.cfg.rpmsave
# sudo rm -fR /etc/xymon
# sudo yum install setools-libs-python
# sudo yum install policycoreutils-python

And what the heck, it's just one package that I may use and xymon wants it
directly, rather than a dependency of a dependency, so:
# sudo yum install net-snmp-libs
 
# sudo rpm -i --nodeps xymon-4.3.18-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
warning: user apache does not exist - using root
warning: group apache does not exist - using root
warning: user apache does not exist - using root
warning: group apache does not exist - using root

 
Should I have any problems that you foresee?

Thanks and kind regards,

SebA

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