Comment 73 for bug 1273484

(In reply to Priyadi Iman Nurcahyo from comment #70)
> (In reply to Sam Kottler from comment #68)
> > > I don't see why it should be different this time.
> >
> > Because that requires everyone moving to a specific project. Overall, I'm
> > fine with letting users choose if they want to keep using the Nagios
> > Enterprises version.
>
> What I meant is what is going to happen when a user runs 'yum update'?
> Assuming there are now new packages for both monitoring-plugins and
> nagios-core-plugins.
>

As per Sam's comments above, "yum update" (and "yum upgrade") will get the monitoring-plugins package, since that one is guaranteed to be compatible and is trusted to work as well as or better than the code currently shipped in the package named 'nagios-plugins'.

> I don't recall I've ever seen yum asked me to choose which upgrade path I
> want to take.

The packagers make that decision based on discussions like this. Normally, trust is about people and not about who owns what trademark or controls which DNS. If you want to change so you use the package from another team you have to make an informed decision to do so. That makes sense, since you're in effect saying "I want to start trusting these people now", while a package upgrade that happens from "nagios-plugins" to "monitoring-plugins" has no change in who you trust.

I'm confident that's why Sam seems to have decided that the monitoring-plugins RPM will be the next upgrade to the nagios-plugins RPM. Assuming I've understood his sentiment from his comments, at least.