plugin `check_radius' is in two non-conflicting packages

Bug #71292 reported by Áron Sisak
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nagios-plugins-extra (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

The installation script fails, stating:

Unpacking nagios-plugins-extra (from .../nagios-plugins-extra_1.3.1.0-12ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nagios-plugins-extra_1.3.1.0-12ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_radius', which is also in package nagios-plugins-standard

This duplication is also stated by apt-file:

$ apt-file search /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_radius
nagios-plugins-extra: usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_radius
nagios-plugins-standard: usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_radius

Tags: packaging
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Chris Rose (chris-vault5) wrote :

Confirmed.

Changed in nagios-plugins-extra:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Chris Studt (cstudt) wrote :

This issue appears to have been fixed with version 1.4.2-5ubuntu3 of nagios-plugins-standard.

The problem is, there is now the same conflict with '/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_game'.

admin@nagios01:~$ dpkg -l | grep nagios
ii nagios-common 1.3-cvs.20050402-8ubuntu7 A host/service/network monitoring and manage
ii nagios-plugins 1.4.2-5ubuntu3 Plugins for the nagios network monitoring an
ii nagios-plugins-basic 1.4.2-5ubuntu3 Plugins for the nagios network monitoring an
ii nagios-plugins-standard 1.4.2-5ubuntu3 Plugins for the nagios network monitoring an
ii nagios-text 1.3-cvs.20050402-8ubuntu7 A host/service/network monitoring and manage
admin@nagios01:~$ sudo apt-get install nagios-plugins-extra
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nagios-plugins-extra
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/19.0kB of archives.
After unpacking 127kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 39113 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nagios-plugins-extra (from .../nagios-plugins-extra_1.3.1.0-12ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nagios-plugins-extra_1.3.1.0-12ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_game', which is also in package nagios-plugins-standard
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/nagios-plugins-extra_1.3.1.0-12ubuntu3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
admin@nagios01:~$ apt-file search check_game
nagios-plugins-extra: usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_game
nagios-plugins-standard: usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_game

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Julius Bloch (jbloch) wrote :

Hi,
I can confirm that this also happens with the latest nagios packages on gutsy
ii nagios-common 2:1.4-3.1ubuntu1
ii nagios-plugins 1.4.8-2.1ubuntu1
ii nagios-plugins-basic 1.4.8-2.1ubuntu1
ii nagios-plugins-standard 1.4.8-2.1ubuntu1
ii nagios-text 2:1.4-3.1ubuntu1

LANG=C apt-get install nagios-plugins-extra
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  mysql-client libnet-daemon-perl libdbi-perl libdbd-mysql-perl mysql-client-5.0 libplrpc-perl
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nagios-plugins-extra
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/19.0kB of archives.
After unpacking 127kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 111249 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nagios-plugins-extra (from .../nagios-plugins-extra_1.3.1.0-12ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nagios-plugins-extra_1.3.1.0-12ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_radius', which is also in package nagios-plugins-standard
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/nagios-plugins-extra_1.3.1.0-12ubuntu3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@Menschlich:/etc/nagios-plugins/config#

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James Troup (elmo) wrote :

This is still present in hardy; it just killed my dapper -> hardy upgrade.

2008-04-16 13:39:18,004 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: '/var/cache/apt/archives/nagios-plugins-extra_1.4.11-1ubuntu4_i386.deb': 'trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_fping', which is also in package nagios-plugins-standard
'

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :
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