Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 192932
Problems after upgrading to net-snmp-5.3.1.pre2-1
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:33 EST
I've just updated to the latest rawhide versions of net-snmp - 5.3.1.pre2-1. This has unfortunately broken two things: Firstly, /usr/include/net-snmp/net-snmp-config.h no longer exists. This breaks many auto* scripts at least on x86_64, the new include file is /usr/include/net-snmp/net-snmp-config64.h Adding a symlink as part of the postinstall may be a suitable workaround for this, at least in the interim. Otherwise lots of people are going to have to edit scripts to get them to compile. Secondly, with cactid, I have rebuilt the binary against the new files after symlinking as above, but it will not run. It fails with this message: [root@tornado cactid]# cactid CACTID: Using cactid config file [/etc/cactid.conf] CACTID: Version 0.8.6h starting CACTID: ERROR: SNMP Library Version Mismatch (5.3.1.pre1 vs 5.3.1.pre2) I don't know where the version 5.3.1.pre1 came from.....it was never a rawhide package. Downgrading to 5.3-8 resolved both of these issues.
About the first issue. Due to multilib madness I decided to separate 64bit and 32bit specific files. The net-snmp-config.h is one of the, so I've moved it to 64.h. If you know better solution for this, let me know. I was thinking also about creating 32.h and 64.h file and net-snmp-config.h will use some #ifdef to recognize between those two. I can't say which approach is better. Will look at the second issue, looks really strange.
Personally I am x86_64 and I don't even have any i386 RPM's installed. That way the multilib stuff is not really a problem for me. I'm just not sure that your workaround is a good one, I can see there could be serious fallout if FC differs from other systems in terms of the names of include files. I wonder if it would be practical or possible to have only one OR the other net-snmp-devel packages installed at once (still retain both archs of the other packages), that way you could have the same filenames in both -devel packages and not have this problem.
Ok, the first issue should be fixed now in net-snmp-5.3.1.pre2-2. net-snmp-config.h redirects to correct header file. The second issue - I guess this happens because some library that cacti is using is not build against new libnetsnmp (php-snmp?) so php will need to be rebuilt first. Check again after php gets rebuilt.
Reopening - still having problems with a ghost version number 5.3.1.pre1 showing up. However your multilib fixes seem to be OK. In /usr/include/net-snmp/net-snmp-config-x86_64.h we see: /* Define to the full name and version of this package. */ #define PACKAGE_STRING "Net-SNMP 5.3.1.pre1" and /* Define to the version of this package. */ #define PACKAGE_VERSION "5.3.1.pre1" I've changed both references by hand to pre2 and cactid compiles and works fine. Obviously this is a bug and needs to be fixed in rawhide (somehow).
ok, give it please another chance with 5.3.1.pre2-4 :)