Bug#389434: MIBs in net-snmp

2006-10-20 Thread Dave Shield
On 20/10/06, Robert Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DS> I offer the attached patch for your delectation and delight Can you give a summary of what all this new code is supposed to do? Moves the MIB directory index files into (a subdirectory of) the N/S persistent directory - i.e. under /v

Bug#389434: MIBs in net-snmp

2006-10-20 Thread Robert Story
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:52:26 +0100 Dave wrote: DS> On 16/10/06, Thomas Anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DS> > What's problematic (and arguably a bug) is the management of the .index DS> > file in the /usr file system. See DS> > DS> > http://sf.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1414566 DS> > http://s

Bug#389434: MIBs in net-snmp

2006-10-16 Thread Dave Shield
On 16/10/06, Thomas Anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What's problematic (and arguably a bug) is the management of the .index file in the /usr file system. See http://sf.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1414566 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13249497 for additional details

Bug#389434: MIBs in net-snmp

2006-10-16 Thread Wes Hardaker
> "RS" == Roland Stigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What MIB files in /usr/share/snmp/mibs "can be changed"? RS> Right, maybe they need not be changed. But documentation (FAQ) describes RS> "How do I add a MIB to the tools" where the contents of the mibs dir, RS> and therefore the mibs lis

Bug#389434: [Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#389434: MIBs in net-snmp

2006-10-16 Thread Roland Stigge
Thomas Anders wrote: > This may be desirable for /usr/share/snmp/mibs on a fully > package-managed system, but custom builds and users with ~/.snmp/mibs > may not be prepared to do the extra work before using the MIBs, > especially since net-snmp doesn't even provide a dedicated utility to > mainta

Bug#389434: [Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#389434: MIBs in net-snmp

2006-10-16 Thread Jochen Friedrich
Hi Roland, > Maybe a default, fixed set of mibs should be shipped and an additional > directory for additional mibs could be prepared (/var/lib/snmp/mibs)? IMHO the best solution would be to create the .index file during install time using an utility. This utility could be reexecuted if a differe

Bug#389434: [Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#389434: MIBs in net-snmp

2006-10-16 Thread Thomas Anders
Jochen Friedrich wrote: >> Maybe a default, fixed set of mibs should be shipped and an additional >> directory for additional mibs could be prepared (/var/lib/snmp/mibs)? > > IMHO the best solution would be to create the .index file during install > time using an utility. This utility could be ree

Bug#389434: MIBs in net-snmp

2006-10-16 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Thomas, Thomas Anders wrote: > Roland Stigge wrote: >> at Debian, we noticed that the net-snmp versions 5.2 ... 5.4 don't >> properly implement the File Hierarchy Standard (FHS). Therefore, we are >> about to move /usr/share/snmp/mibs to /var/lib/snmp/mibs since it >> contains MIB files that ca

Bug#389434: MIBs in net-snmp

2006-10-16 Thread Thomas Anders
Roland Stigge wrote: > at Debian, we noticed that the net-snmp versions 5.2 ... 5.4 don't > properly implement the File Hierarchy Standard (FHS). Therefore, we are > about to move /usr/share/snmp/mibs to /var/lib/snmp/mibs since it > contains MIB files that can be changed and the .index file is eve