It seems that since the introduction of the pgdg-common repository, we are having difficulty installing the monitoring tool packaged in nagios-plugins-pgactivity. The RPM requires postgresql12, but if I'm not mistaken, this package should also be compatible with older versions of PostgreSQL and as such this dependency looks like a bug in the RPM. Is this observation correct?
I can confirm that check_pgactivity is compatible with all supported versions of PostgreSQL (and more).
Thank you for your reply.
Perhaps you misread my message. The RPM for nagios-plugins-pgactivity that you offer in the pgdg-common repository states a requirement on PostgreSQL 12.
This requirement is incorrect, since nagios-plugins-pgactivity is compatible with any version of PostgreSQL, as you have confirmed.
Below is a list of the dependencies for nagios-plugins-pgactivity-2.4-1.rhel7.noarch.rpm. As you can see there is a hardcoded dependency on postgresql12.
This requirement renders the package effectively useless for anyone using any version lower than PostgreSQL 12.
This looks to me like a bug in the packaging of this software. When the package was still provided from the version-specific repositories, there was no issue at all in installing this package.
If yes, then it would be great if this could be fixed, as this is preventing us from properly installing or updating nagios-plugins-pgactivity
If this can help, the project provides its own RPM:
