mibs absent from maverick

[Dave Lawrence]

the directory /usr/share/snmp/mibs is missing from the libsnmp-base package on maverick

according to /usr/share/doc/libsnmp-base/README.mibs these are now fetched and built and there's meant to be a Makefile.mib to help, but this file does not appear to be present.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: libsnmp-base 5.4.3~dfsg-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 12 18:57:09 2010
Dependencies:

PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: net-snmp

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Reading the NEWS file:

net-snmp (5.4.2.1~dfsg-4) unstable; urgency=low

  As of version 5.4.2.1~dfsg-4, this package no longer downloads the MIBs
  from IETF or IANA, but suggests the package snmp-mibs-downloader in
  contrib to do this job. Please consider installing this package if you
  need the SNMP MIBs.

 -- Jochen Friedrich <email address hidden> Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:29:14 +0100

So it appears you should install the snmp-mibs-downloader package and use /usr/bin/download-mibs

[Ivan Quirino (ivanquirino1928)]

The net-snmp without MIBs is useless for a lot o people, please reconsider.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

This is probably due to licensing reasons, auto-downloading MIBs from IETF or IANA is certainly considered "distributing" them. That's why Debian separated the MIB downloader and required user action to install them. I don't think Ubuntu would like to differ there... but I could be proven wrong.

[Dave Lawrence (dl-alphawave)]

It would be informative useful if the absence, and the method to fetch the MIBS was made clearer.

[Biafra (paulo-a-ferreira)]

There are libraries and applications that look for the mibs in /usr/share/snmp/mibs

"download-mibs" is not creating them there.

It uses a "new" one

/var/lib/mibs

with subdirectories "iana" and "ietf"

Breaking the location has nothing to do with licensing.

[Biafra (paulo-a-ferreira)]

It would be nice if net-snmp created /usr/share/snmp/mibs with a README file forwarding us to download-mibs and a bit of info about the change.

[Tyler Wagner (tyler)]

The above behaviour persists up to precise. I can see that the mibdirs include the locations where download-mibs puts them:

root@precise:~# net-snmp-config --default-mibdirs
/root/.snmp/mibs:/usr/share/mibs/site:/usr/share/snmp/mibs:/usr/share/mibs/iana:/usr/share/mibs/ietf:/usr/share/mibs/netsnmp

root@precise:~# ls -l /usr/share/mibs
total 12
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 7 2010 iana -> /var/lib/mibs/iana
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 7 2010 ietf -> /var/lib/mibs/ietf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 23 23:12 netsnmp

IE, the location is not "broken", as Net-SNMP will follow the mibdirs variable.

This should be closed as Not a Bug.