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) #
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