[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#556788: libsnmp-base: Please provide a more clear warning that downloading MIBs can take hours

[Jan Wagner]

Hi there,

On Tuesday, 17. November 2009, you wrote:
> I gave the installation permisson to download MIBs, but it was in no way
> clear to me that this process would take several hours on a fast
>  connection.
> 
> Please provide a significantly more clear warning on how long this process
> takes.

strong ACK. I just wanted to updated my system with just a couple of packages 
and my decision did block the dpkg database for ages (until the process was 
finished).
Imagine that happen on dist-upgrade from one to another stable release ... if 
one important system service was stopped by package upgrade and now libsnmp-
base is fetching the whole RFCs and IANA docs, which take a lot, the service 
outage is not acceptable. Most of my dist-upgrades to lenny was faster than 
the MIB download.

Thanks and with kind regards, Jan.
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