mod_pkg
Introduced in version: 0.1.18
About
This module monitors for package updates using supported package management tools. This module is designed to be able to monitor multiple sources of package information simultaneously, including system and userspace package managers.
Package manager support
Supported package management systems / tools:
- APT
Future support planned for (in order of priority):
- DNF 1
- YUM
- PIP
- NPM
- Gradle
- Maven
- Composer
1 DNF was enabled in 0.1.18 and disabled in 0.1.24 due to issues in DNF Python API.
System requirements
APT support
For systems using APT package manager (Debian, Ubuntu, etc) - python3-apt package must be installed
APT cache must be automatically updated by the system itself - Gullveig has no root access and can't update APT cache on its own.
DNF support
NOTE: support for DNF is currently disabled due to issues with DNF Python API.
For systems using DNF - dnf Python3 module must be present, provided by python3-libdnf.
NOTE ON EL7: this module does not support DNF on EL7 because EL7 based distributions does not provide
python3-libdnf bindings. On EL7, YUM will be used instead.
Alerts
This module will issue an INCIDENT level alerts when updates are available, if upgrade_warn is set to true.
Metadata
This module will report all pending updates in metadata of this module.
Metrics
None.
Configuration
Section [module_reporting]
mod_pkg_fetch_every
Default value: 600 seconds
mod_pkg_expires_after
Default value: 660 seconds
Section [mod_pkg]
upgrade_warn
Default value: false
When enabled, module will issue INCIDENT level alert when updates are available. Disabled by default.