Re: Nagios 3.1.2

[Ray Van Dolson <rayvd bludgeon org>]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 11:53:29PM +0200, Xavier Bachelot wrote:
> Mike McGrath wrote:
> > I've stayed on the nagios 2.x tree long enough, anyone opposed to me
> > updating to 3.1.2 in EPEL?
> > 
> Last time this was discussed, the plan was to keep nagios at 2.x and
> introduce a parallel installable nagios3. iirc, there's no automagic way
> to go from a nagios 2.x to a nagios 3.x conf, so the update wouldn't be
> transparent. And a major version bump would be against the RHEL/EPEL
> policy anyway, unless special circumstances (security fix that cannot be
> backported...)
> 

If nagios3 is introduced, will the original nagios package be orphaned
or will Mike or someone else continue maintaining it?

Ray