[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#530289: Bug#530289: net-snmp: FTBFS on hurd-i386

[Jochen Friedrich]

Hi Marc,

> The following patch deactivate IPv6 support, which is not supported on 
> Hurd yet. It also deactivate a few modules, as collecting the 
> host/routing/... information on Hurd is not that simple, as the 
> information is not centralized, and there is no working solution yet. 
> We'll reactivate those features as soon as a proper solution is 
> available, but in the time being this package is blocking plenty of 
> other packages having SNMP as _optional_ feature, so we'd like to 
> unblock them. With the following patch the snmpd daemon is fully working 
> even if it has not much information to give.
> 
> Please note that part of this patch is a fix of the upstream code, as 
> deactivating the mibII module should also deactivate all of its 
> functions, but the VACM config calls are not, thus creating a build 
> failure. So this part is absolutely not Hurd specific.

could you have a look at the current 5.4.2.1 package in unstable and rebase
your patch? I'd like to upload this together with the patch from #557244.

Thanks,
Jochen