Hello,

Jffnms is a very cool network management package, albeit a little
complex to install and configure. Thanks to 'angusyoung' installation
is now a breeze. I thought I'd post what I did to get it to
install, in explicit form, in case anyone else wanted to check out this
excellent 'network management system'.

I've been reading and working on installing jffnms, an experimental new
package not yet in the portage tree. Here are the documents I have
been using as a guide for this installation:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_
Ebuilds#ebuild:_A_Safer_Approach
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Portage_Overlay_Listing#Gentoo_PHP_Overlay
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92501

Here's what I did in a synopsis:
vi /etc/make.conf:
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="${PORTDIR_OVERLAY} /usr/local/portage/net-analyzer/jffnms/"

vi /etc/portage/package.keywords
        net-analyzer/jffnms     ~x86

vi /etc/portage/package.use
        net-analyzer/jffnms     snmp

vi /etc/portage/package.unmask
   #     >=net-analyzer/jffnms-0.8.2

mkdir /usr/local/portage/net-analyzer/jffnms
cd /usr/local/portage/net-analyzer/jffnms
  copy latest ebuild from buzilla (92501) to file named:
        jffnms-0.8.2.ebuild

ebuild jffnms-0.8.2.ebuild digest  <create Manifest and the files dir>
emerge jffnms
....


now it's installed:
net-analyzer/jffnms
      Latest version available: 0.8.2
      Latest version installed: 0.8.2
      Size of downloaded files: 544 kB

Questions:

Did I miss anything? Is anything in the above synopsis incorrect
or not necessary?

Anyone else want to try installing jffnms so as to test it on
Gentoo?

On to configuring this beast!
http://dev.gentoo.org/~angusyoung/docs/jffnms


James

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