[Xymon] Testing Terabithia packages updated to 4.3.29-0.6

[Mike Burger]

On 2019-05-06 12:52, Japheth Cleaver wrote:
> 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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>>> 
>>> -- Matt Vander Werf
>>> HPC System Administrator
>>> University of Notre Dame
>>> 
>>> On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 8:24 PM Japheth Cleaver
>>> <cleaver at terabithia.org> 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.

Interestingly, the xymon-client-4.3.27 RPM does NOT require dash:

[mburger at in-pedmmqlx01 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Maipo)
[mburger at in-pedmmqlx01 ~]$ rpm -q dash
package dash is not installed
[mburger at in-pedmmqlx01 ~]$ rpm -q xymon-client
xymon-client-4.3.27-1.el7.x86_64
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