[Pkg-Cyrus-imapd-Debian-devel] libsnmp-dev dependency

[Sven Mueller]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote on 28/11/2005 23:11:
> Any of you guys is *actually* using the SNMP agent-x functions?  Have you
> guys stress-tested them? 

I tested them, but that was far from being a stresstest. I just checked
that they were compiled in correctly and worked at all.

> Last time I debugged those I nearly went ballistic
> over the amount of crap upstream libsnmp had in that stuff (which was so
> utterly broken it was not funny).  Since then, I have always wondered if it
> would not be best to just skip compiling agent-x snmp support in Cyrus.

Might be an option. We could add it again if someone actually asks for
it. I will commit a change to that effect tomorrow if noone objects.

> The first thing that killed agent-x support for my needs was that if you
> restarted snmpd for any reason, you'd need to restart cyrus to get the
> agent-x connection going again.  The broken tcpwrappers shit in libsnmp was
> just icying in the cake (and I *sure* hope nobody enabled that crap again in
> the Debian packages).

;-) Hope against better knowledge? ;-)

cu,
sven
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