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

[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 even
> always regenerated. (The alternative would have been to make the
> contents of /usr/share/snmp/mibs static, including the .index file).

What MIB files in /usr/share/snmp/mibs "can be changed"?

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 and discussion.

> See also http://bugs.debian.org/389434 . Maybe you would like to adjust
> the default location as well.

We're open to discussion and patches. I'm not yet convinced, though,
that moving the default location is the best solution to the above problem.


+Thomas

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Thomas Anders (thomas.anders at blue-cable.de)