Availability of the plugin in EPEL 9

[mightyspiky]

Will the plugin be soon available in EPEL 9? I've tried to compile from sources and failed with basic problems which seem to be related to the fact that "perl-interpreter" rpm in RHEL 9 is much more slim than in RHEL 8 (contains 11 files instead of 930).

[matteocorti]

I do not maintain the EPEL packages, but I'll try to debug the issue.

[matteocorti]

There are no problems with building the RPM from the source tarball with the default spec file.

The problem should be notified to the maintainer of the EPEL package.

$ rpmbuild -ta ./check-updates-2.0.0.tar.gz
setting SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=1652313600
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.r94LDo
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ rm -rf check_updates-2.0.0
+ /usr/bin/gzip -dc /home/parallels/src/check_updates/check_updates-2.0.0.tar.gz
+ /usr/bin/tar -xof -
+ STATUS=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
+ cd check_updates-2.0.0
+ /usr/bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w .
+ RPM_EC=0
++ jobs -p
+ exit 0
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.uWeUTJ
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd check_updates-2.0.0
+ /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor INSTALLSCRIPT=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins INSTALLVENDORSCRIPT=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins
Cannot determine perl version info from check_updates
Cannot determine perl version info from check_updates.pod
Checking if your kit is complete...
Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
    check_updates.completio
Please inform the author.
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for check_updates
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
+ make -j2
cp check_updates.pod blib/lib/check_updates.pod
cp check_updates blib/script/check_updates
"/usr/bin/perl" "-Iinc" -MExtUtils::MY -e 'MY->fixin(shift)' -- blib/script/check_updates
Manifying 1 pod document
+ RPM_EC=0
++ jobs -p
+ exit 0
Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.F85Nji
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ '[' /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64 '!=' / ']'
+ rm -rf /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64
++ dirname /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64
+ mkdir -p /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT
+ mkdir /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64
+ cd check_updates-2.0.0
+ rm -rf /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64
+ make pure_install PERL_INSTALL_ROOT=/home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64
Manifying 1 pod document
Installing /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/check_updates.pod
Installing /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64/usr/share/man/man1/check_updates.1
Installing /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_updates
+ mkdir -p /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/
+ cp check_updates.completion /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/check_updates
+ find /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64 -type f -name .packlist -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
+ find /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64 -type f -name '*.pod' -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
+ find /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64 -depth -type d -exec rmdir '{}' ';'
+ /usr/bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64/usr
+ /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-ldconfig
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip /usr/bin/strip
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note /usr/bin/strip /usr/bin/objdump
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-lto /usr/bin/strip
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-static-archive /usr/bin/strip
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-python-bytecompile '' 1 0
+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-python-hardlink
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-mangle-shebangs
Executing(%check): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.nXgN7Q
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd check_updates-2.0.0
+ make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/usr/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'inc', 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/00_modules.t .... ok
t/01_functions.t .. ok
t/02_yum.t ........ ok
All tests successful.
Files=3, Tests=53,  0 wallclock secs ( 0.01 usr  0.00 sys +  0.13 cusr  0.02 csys =  0.16 CPU)
Result: PASS
+ RPM_EC=0
++ jobs -p
+ exit 0
Processing files: nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64
Executing(%doc): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.8Aunv1
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd check_updates-2.0.0
+ DOCDIR=/home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-check-updates
+ export LC_ALL=C
+ LC_ALL=C
+ export DOCDIR
+ /usr/bin/mkdir -p /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-check-updates
+ cp -pr AUTHORS.md /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-check-updates
+ cp -pr Changes /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-check-updates
+ cp -pr NEWS /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-check-updates
+ cp -pr README.md /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-check-updates
+ cp -pr COPYING /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-check-updates
+ cp -pr COPYRIGHT /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-check-updates
+ RPM_EC=0
++ jobs -p
+ exit 0
Provides: nagios-plugins-check-updates = 2.0.0-0.el9 nagios-plugins-check-updates(aarch-64) = 2.0.0-0.el9
Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
Requires: /usr/bin/perl
Obsoletes: check_updates <= 100
Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64
Wrote: /home/parallels/rpmbuild/SRPMS/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.src.rpm
Wrote: /home/parallels/rpmbuild/RPMS/aarch64/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64.rpm
Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.bWSgG5
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd check_updates-2.0.0
+ rm -rf /home/parallels/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/nagios-plugins-check-updates-2.0.0-0.el9.aarch64
+ RPM_EC=0
++ jobs -p
+ exit 0

[mightyspiky]

Ok thanks. I was trying to build the package with "perl Makefile.PL; make; make install"... With rpmbuild, it works, but under RHEL 9, I had to install perl-Monitoring-Plugin and its dependency perl-Math-Calc-Units from Fedora 34 packages since they were not available in any base repo (baseos, codereadybuilder, appstream or EPEL) of RHEL. Since RHEL 9 is based on Fedora 34, I thought it would work and it indeed did. Thanks for the help.

[matteocorti]

I had to do the same (I actually installed Monitoring::Plugin with cpanm but the result is the same).