[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0012290]: Can not choose res_snmp in "make menuconfig" because dependency (net-snmp package) not recognized.

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The following issue has been RESOLVED. 
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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=12290 
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Reported By:                Joe_
Assigned To:                qwell
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   12290
Category:                   Resources/res_snmp
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     resolved
Asterisk Version:           1.6.0-beta5 
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): 1.6.0 
SVN Revision (number only!): 89511 
Disclaimer on File?:        N/A 
Request Review:              
Resolution:                 no change required
Fixed in Version:           
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Date Submitted:             03-24-2008 15:12 CDT
Last Modified:              03-27-2008 16:40 CDT
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Summary:                    Can not choose res_snmp in "make menuconfig" because
dependency (net-snmp package) not recognized.
Description: 
The res_snmp module can not be chosen in "make menuconfig" apparently
because the net-snmp installation isn't recognized.  It says in "make
menuconfig" that it depends on "netsnmp".  Could this be because of
confusion about the naming of the net-snmp/netsnmp package, or are these
two different pieces of software.  Even within the package itself both
names seem to be used

I am running on a Trixbox 2.6 installation which uses CentOS 5.1 
"yum list net-snmp*"  shows that I have net-snmp, net-snmp-devel,
net-snmp-libs and net-snmp-utils all installed.  It could perhaps be
possible that the Trixbox developers did something wrong/nonstandard in
creating the net-snmp package.
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Relationships       ID      Summary
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child of            0012067 Configure Script does not properly test...
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 qwell - 03-27-08 16:40  
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Joe_, you are right in that many users probably won't look past the top
level directory for documentation - but you'll see that if you do look,
there is a README file which points to files in the doc/ directory for
further information.  There isn't a whole lot I can say about the users who
didn't read the README file though...

In this particular case, we have explicitly listed all of the dependencies
that we require.  It is up to the distribution to properly package these
dependencies.  If we were to list absolutely everything required for a
module, we would have to list some very low level components, which in many
cases, would make the lists unreasonably long (imagine if we had to note
that we require a C library for every single module..). 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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03-27-08 16:40  qwell          Status                   feedback => resolved
03-27-08 16:40  qwell          Resolution               open => no change
required
03-27-08 16:40  qwell          Assigned To               => qwell           
03-27-08 16:40  qwell          Note Added: 0084675                          
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