get check_yum included in monitoring-plugins

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The Nagios plugins package already contains a check for the APT package 
management system.

As YUM is also quite widespread (Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux) it 
should become part, too.


Could become difficult, as apparently most (all?) plugins there are written in 
C, not in Python.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 1 May 2012 at 1:15

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It seems that Fedora will switch from YUM to DNF as package manager, which 
makes it likely that eventually RHEL/CentOS/SL will also migrate to it.

Therefore including check_yum into nagios-plugins is no longer high priority.

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Jun 2012 at 9:50

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As it will take many years till all old RHEL/clones systems with yum are gone I 
find it worth to include check_yum in nagios-plugins. It won't hurt anybody and 
help everybody who still has such systems running.

Original comment by [email protected] on 21 Aug 2013 at 11:20

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Well... to be honest, the time I can spent for check_yum is quite limited... 
not only due to the fact that I consider yum/rpm broken by themselves...

Also I guess it would need a proper C/C++ rewrite to get it into the nagios 
plugins.

Original comment by [email protected] on 21 Aug 2013 at 6:16

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Changed this from "nagios-plugins" to "monitoring-plugins".