Re: Summary of meeting between NET-SNMP devs and ICEI

2018-04-25 Thread Eric S. Raymond
movie before. It's very common in codebases of this age and size range. Nuke them from orbit, sez I. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond My work is funded by the Internet Civil Engineering Institute: https://icei.org Please visit their site and donate: t

Re: Summary of meeting between NET-SNMP devs and ICEI

2018-04-25 Thread Eric S. Raymond
toconf tragedy, making buld-failure diagnosis *far* more complex and gnarly than it needs to be. I have come to believe that all two-phase build engines should be shot with silver bullets and buried at crossroads with stakes through their hearts. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/&quo

Re: IRC chat to help our new guard get on board?

2018-04-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
you feel about having the meeting the week of April 16 to see > if we can get better timing and more people to come? I don't have a preference. I think you're collecting better information to base a decision on than I am. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S.

IRC chat to help our new guard get on board?

2018-04-03 Thread Eric S. Raymond
tend, please respond with your name, your project role, and some indication of when you could be free for a 45-minute IRC chat within the next ten days. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people o

Re: Fix patch for SF bug 2833

2018-03-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
rtcomings of that API. 2833 should probably be maeked WONTFIX abd closed with that exolamation, then. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond My work is funded by the Internet Civil Engineering Institute: https://icei.org Please visit their site and donate: the c

Re: Fwd: RE: C99 (was: Re: Fix patch for SF bug 2833)

2018-03-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
arly so. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond My work is funded by the Internet Civil Engineering Institute: https://icei.org Please visit their site and donate: the civilization you save might be your own. -

Re: Patch for build instructions

2018-03-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Bill Fenner : > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 3:26 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > Or possibly it might have but your build system messed me over. I don't > > trust > > autoconf as far as I can throw it. > > > > I understand someone's done a conver

Re: Patch for build instructions

2018-03-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ot throwing these doc patches at you with a belief that they're in themselves final answers. Rather, they're to point out exactly where the defect is and hopefully stimulate a response. (I'd be much more careful about what I sent as a code patch.) -- http://www.catb.org

Re: Patch for build instructions

2018-03-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Bart Van Assche : > On 03/21/18 19:47, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > >>From 2ffbdd9e8f15eb3e3dc985ab3aa0a12d798e4b78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > >From: "Eric S. Raymond" > >Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:24:40 -0400 > >Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL: Fix for build instruct

Re: Unstable tests

2018-03-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
e due to misconfigured +DNS upstream of you. A workaround is to point your DNS server at a +non-broken one. Adding "nameserver 8.8.8.8" as the first entry in +/etc/resolv.conf will do. Compilers and Options ========= -- 2.7.4 -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/

Re: Unstable tests

2018-03-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ive you the option to use a sane one, or of course you could > change your /etc/resolv.conf to point to a sane public DNS provider. I have a Verizon FIOS business account. The rot has spread to more than "home" service. This problem should be documented where people running the test

Re: Fix patch for SF bug 2833

2018-03-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ithdraw the suggestion. Procedurally, do you have an official queue of patches deferred to the next major release, or a repository branch for them? Putting the patch there would be a reasonable way to close 2833. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond My work is funded by

C99 (was: Re: Fix patch for SF bug 2833)

2018-03-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Bill Fenner : > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 9:16 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > On the other hand, I question whether the extra overhead is a real > > issue in 2018. > > > I have the same question, but know that I have no useful opinion here - my > "embedde

Re: Fix patch for SF bug 2833

2018-03-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ation, or should the reporter just split up his registration into > multiple groups, each with less than 255 variables? That I have no opinion on. My domain knowledge of SNMP and its usage is very limited. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond My work is funde

Re: Unstable tests

2018-03-22 Thread Eric S. Raymond
58 cusr 4.74 csys = 18.67 CPU) Result: FAIL We failed these 1 tests: com2sec directive ( /home/esr/software/net-snmp-code/testing/fulltests/default/T070com2sec_simple ) > What branch did you use to run your tests? master -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S

Unstable tests

2018-03-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ncies in the tests? Is it known that 1 and 31 can fail on a stock build? -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond All forms of government are pernicious, including good government. --

Patch for build instructions

2018-03-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond
>From 2ffbdd9e8f15eb3e3dc985ab3aa0a12d798e4b78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:24:40 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL: Fix for build instructions. Mention a prerequisite that will trip people up under Ubuntu. --- INSTALL | 3 ++- 1 fi

Fix patch for SF bug 2833

2018-03-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond
>From 54e79ba66327bdb54f97f457d76531f657ec546d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:22:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] include/net-snmp/agent/{snmp_vars.h,var_struct.h}: address SF bug 2833. Tests pass, --- include/net-snmp/agent/snmp_vars.h |

Re: ICEI asks what help you need

2018-03-21 Thread Eric S. Raymond
some MRs soon. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond My work is funded by the Internet Civil Engineering Institute: https://icei.org Please visit their site and donate: the civilization you save might be your own. --

ICEI asks what help you need

2018-03-20 Thread Eric S. Raymond
f and volunteers, we'll cheerfully pitch in. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashd

*beep* Take me to your leaders! *beep*

2007-02-08 Thread Eric S. Raymond
ter open-source documentation infrastructure. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-int

Re: problems in snmpd.conf.5

2004-11-25 Thread Eric S. Raymond
have many man pages which are generated from definition files which > are processed by sed and other tools). But I doubt your automated > system can handle this either. Alas, both your conjectures are correct. -- http://w

Re: problems in one or more man pages you maintain

2004-08-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
to be malformed in this manner. > > I'd suggest that the simplest thing would be either to drop these > particular man pages from the distribution, or else have a special > "sed" (or similar) script to paste in the missing formatting. I think those three pages would not

Re: problems in one or more man pages you maintain

2004-08-02 Thread Eric S. Raymond
auto generated from doxygen. Adding in > the .SH token will get it overwritten by future doxygen extraction... Then your build system needs to be fixed. I can't imagine this would be very difficult. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond ---