[Custom LOCALBASE/PREFIX] net-mgmt/p5-SNMP - fails: makefile

Philip M. Gollucci pgollucci at p6m7g8.com
Wed Jul 15 17:54:25 UTC 2009


Cezary Morga wrote:
>> I'll prepare an update and fill a PR afterwards. Given that both come 
>> from the same source I expect it to build against net-snmp without a 
>> hitch.
> 
> Given that net-snmp builds bundled Perl modules by default we have now 
> two options regarding net-mgmt/p5-SNMP: 1) disable Perl modules builds 
> in net-snmp and update p5-SNMP to 5.4.2.1 or 2) leave net-snmp as it is 
> and mark p5-SNMP DEPRECATED with comment 'p5-SNMP is built as a part of 
> net-mgmt/net-snmp now'. Personally, I'd opt for the latter.
> 
> The current version of p5-SNMP (4.2.7.1) depends on net-snmp4 which is 
> deprecated with expiration date 2009-07-01 (two weeks ago) so IMO 
> there's no need to keep it around either.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
As the new maintainer of net-snmp with net-snmp55 in the pipeline, I 
like option #2.



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