[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#914657: Bug#914657: Acknowledgement (stdout is flodded with debug messages)

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Craig

Am 26.11.18 um 12:46 schrieb Craig Small:
> Hi Michael,
>   Thanks for looking into this for me. It does seem that if you have a
> setup that includes libsnmp30 but not snmp then this problem will occur.
> 
> Looking through the changelog, I can see that snmp.conf has bounced
> between snmp and the library, but with no real explanation why.  I'll
> put it into the libsnmp-base as suggested.

Looking at /etc/snmp/snmp.conf it says:

# As the snmp packages come without MIB files due to license reasons,
loading
# of MIBs is disabled by default. If you added the MIBs you can reenable
# loading them by commenting out the following line.
mibs :


From what I understand, this turns of parsing of the MIB files
completely, is that correct? If so, I wonder why libsnmp depends on
libsnmp-base then if the data shipped there is unused by default when
snmp.conf is installed?

Is the real problem maybe that that MIB files shipped in libsnmp-base
are broken (judging from the libsnmp output)?

Mind you, I know basically zero about net-snmp, so apologies if this is
stupid question.

Regards,
Michael
-- 
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