Description of problem: The "nagios-plugins-all" package does not depend upon the "nagios" package. However, some of the packages which the "nagios-plugins-all" package pulls in require that the "nagios" group to exist (which is created by the "nagios" package). For example, the "nagios-plugins-fping", produces the following warning if one installs it before installing the "nagios" package: warning: group nagios does not exist - using root When this warning occurs, the plug-in will have its group set to "root" instead of "nagios". To work around the problem by hand, one simply needs to install the "nagios" package prior to installing any plug-ins. However, when trying to include "nagios" and the "nagios-plugins" packages within a kickstart file for the creation of a Live CD, the ordering of package installation is based on dependencies in the RPM spec files of each package (we don't think there is a way to force the "nagios" package to be installed prior to the plugins). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 10 RPMs. How reproducible: Easily reproducible/demonstrated. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start with a Fedora 10 box (i386 or x86_64) which has never had any nagios packages installed (Fedora 10 Live should be sufficient). 2. Install the: nagios-plugins-fping package with yum: yum install nagios-plugins-fping Actual results: The following "warning" appears in the output and the group will be set to "root" instead of "nagios" for the plugin: Running Transaction Installing : fping 1/3 Installing : nagios-plugins 2/3 Installing : nagios-plugins-fping 3/3 warning: group nagios does not exist - using root Installed: nagios-plugins-fping.x86_64 0:1.4.13-11.fc10 Dependency Installed: fping.x86_64 0:2.4b2-8.fc9 nagios-plugins.x86_64 0:1.4.13-11.fc10 Expected results: - No warning - Installation of nagios (or some other) package to resolve dependency of nagios group Additional info: If it is undesirable to have the nagios plugins depend directly upon the nagios package, then maybe a auxillary package (like: "nagios-user") should be created which has the responsiblity of setting up the nagios user account which is required for the "nagios" package and some of the nagios plugins. This wouldn't be a big issue if installing nagios by hand, it is a problem for us as we try to install nagios via a kickstart file to build our 2.10.0 version of the Network Security Toolkit (NST) live ISO image. Installation from a kickstart file relies purely on package dependencies specified in the spec files for determining the order in which packages are installed (we don't know how to force a kickstart file to install nagios before the nagios-plugins). This bug (and solution) may be related to bug #469530. Thanks for your time.
Paul, Known problem. Closing this ticket as a duplicate of #469530 /jpo PS - Maybe it can be solved in #526561.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 469530 ***