On Oct 31, 2012, at 14:30, Gregor Jasny <[email protected]> wrote:
> recently I forked Xsnmp because the author completely stepped back from > maintaining it. It can be found here: https://github.com/gjasny/Xsnmp > > There is an Xcode project to build a complete installer including a > (IMHO) limited preferences pane to enable the SNMP deamon and the Xsnmp > agent. > > For my own servers I'd prefer having Xsnmp in MacPorts. This would ease > starting and upgrading. > > Now to my question: xsnmp depends on the libnetsnmp and libnetsnmpagent > libraries and headers. They are provided by MacOS itself. But as an > alternative port I'd have to specify net-snmp. Unfortunately these libs > are only provided in the +server variant. > > So how do I achieve the necessary dependency? I read some vague things > about subports but did not find any concrete documentation. MacPorts doesn't let you declare a dependency on a variant of a port. It's issue #126. If the +server variant of net-snmp installs libraries, and other ports might want to use those libraries, then the +server variant of net-snmp should probably be turned into a net-snmp-server subport. net-snmp appears to be maintained by me :) but I don't really know much about it, so I wasn't aware that the +server variant installed any libraries. Can you think of any reason why we shouldn't delete the +server variant and just make the port install those parts always? > For reference I attached the preliminary Xsnmp Portfile. Once I make a > real 1.2.0 release I'll convert it to using tarballs. You have three "depends_lib" lines; they overwrite each other. You probably want to have only one depends_lib line, or else the subsequent ones should be depends_lib-append. > PS: How to specify beta version numbers? I assume 1.2.0-beta1 is newer > that 1.2.0. In Debian I'd use 1.2.0~beta1. MacPorts doesn't have a rule about that. We generally just use the version number as published by the upstream project. "~" seems like a strange character to see in a version number so if upstream has not specified how the version number is to be written, then I would suggest a dash (1.2.0-beta1) or no separator (1.2.0beta1 or 1.2.0b1). _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
