Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 151538
php-snmp rpm is missing, breaking cacti in an upgrade
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:06 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3 Description of problem: php-snmp seems to have been left out of both the RHEL3 and RHEL4 distributions (WS, ES, and AS). This breaks my entire monitoring system. A small list of software that now no longer works : - cacti - opennms - ntop - OTRS My business relies on this software. Please fix this problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): php-4.3.2-19.ent How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHEL 2. Try to install cacti 3. Fail miserably Actual Results: php-snmp is missing Expected Results: php-snmp should be available. Additional info:
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The changelog of php package (from May 2003) notes that the php-snmp subpackage was left out because of ucd-snmp changing name to net-snmp overnight. Can the subpackage be added back now, considering that it is almost two years? A lot of tools (I am stuck on cacti) depends on php-snmp. I have rebuilt the PHP RPMs with snmp support, but that breaks my up2date processes. Thanks.
php-snmp is included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Red Hat does not currently plan to provide a resolution for this in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux update for currently deployed systems. With the goal of minimizing risk of change for deployed systems, and in response to customer and partner requirements, Red Hat takes a conservative approach when evaluating changes for inclusion in maintenance updates for currently deployed products. The primary objectives of update releases are to enable new hardware platform support and to resolve critical defects.