CentOS - Oct 2010 - missing dependency for package

Hello everyone,

I know this isn't strictly CentOS query, but I am hoping that someone
here with more experience than myself might have some thoughts.

I am trying to get a plugin working for Ganglia on a CentOS 5.5 box,
in a testing environment. The plugin is for apache monitoring, called
Ganglia-Logtailer. This plugin requires the executable
/usr/bin/logtail in order to work. The only packages that have this
executable, that I have been able to find, is part of the epel-testing
repository in the logcheck package. When I try to install the package
from that repository, it is missing the dependency,
perl-mime-construct, which I am not able to find packaged anywhere.

It appears that the logcheck package includes several other
executables that I do not need, and those other executables are what
requires the perl-mime-construct package.

My question is, does anyone know of a source to get this package that
would also include the necessary requirements? If not, any way that I
can rebuild the source package, and remove the things that I do not
need, and thus removing their dependencies? If I have to maintain my
own package for this, I can, but I would prefer another option, if
available. Any other way of getting this single executable that anyone
can think of?

-- 
Doug

Registered Linux User #285548 (http://counter.li.org)
----------------------------------------
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
   -- Steve Wozniak

Hello,

using cpan2rpm

http://www.tlviewer.org/centos/5/i386/repodata/repoview/perl-mime-construct-0-1.11-1.el5.html

--- On Thu, 10/21/10, Ski Dawg <centos at skidawg.org> wrote:
> From: Ski Dawg <centos at skidawg.org>
> Subject: [CentOS] missing dependency for package
> To: centos at centos.org
> Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010, 10:21 AM
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I know this isn't strictly CentOS query, but I am hoping
> that someone
> here with more experience than myself might have some
> thoughts.
> 
> I am trying to get a plugin working for Ganglia on a CentOS
> 5.5 box,
> in a testing environment. The plugin is for apache
> monitoring, called
> Ganglia-Logtailer. This plugin requires the executable
> /usr/bin/logtail in order to work. The only packages that
> have this
> executable, that I have been able to find, is part of the
> epel-testing
> repository in the logcheck package. When I try to install
> the package
> from that repository, it is missing the dependency,
> perl-mime-construct, which I am not able to find packaged
> anywhere.
> 
> It appears that the logcheck package includes several
> other
> executables that I do not need, and those other executables
> are what
> requires the perl-mime-construct package.
> 
> My question is, does anyone know of a source to get this
> package that
> would also include the necessary requirements? If not, any
> way that I
> can rebuild the source package, and remove the things that
> I do not
> need, and thus removing their dependencies? If I have to
> maintain my
> own package for this, I can, but I would prefer another
> option, if
> available. Any other way of getting this single executable
> that anyone
> can think of?
> 
> -- 
> Doug
> 
> Registered Linux User #285548 (http://counter.li.org)
> ----------------------------------------
> Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
> ???-- Steve Wozniak
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On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Ski Dawg wrote:
> from that repository, it is missing the dependency,
> perl-mime-construct, which I am not able to find packaged anywhere.
I see it in F 13 and RawHide, but it in turn needs: 
perl(Proc::WaitStat) [which was in RHL 6.2 ;) and is back in 
F13 ]; which in turn wants: perl(IPC::Signal)

I am in process relocating my FTP archive, and the management 
scripts that push interior content to the public archives are 
in a state of flux -- I have emailled a private piece to 'Ski 
Dawg' with a temporary URL he might use to get at the SRPMs 
for C5

-- Russ herrold