Re: Fw: Unable to build Net-Snmp with embedded perl

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:05 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm trying to understand the release strategy  of Net-SNMP. Once 5.7 has
> been released, I understand there will be a 5.7.1 release that includes
> patches. Looking at the diff file that you have sent these seem to be 5.6
> patches to be merged into 5-7 patches. Was 5.7 created and released while
> 5.6 is still being patched?
>

The Net-SNMP release strategy is more or less as follows:
- Currently five branches are maintained - a 5.4.x, 5.5.x, 5.6.x, 5.7.x and
a master branch.
- Patches that fix a bug that is present in more than one branch are applied
to all appropriate branches, starting with the oldest branch and from there
merged into newer branches. That's why the commit message said something
about merging.
- From time to time a release is generated from the most recent state of one
of these branches.

See also http://www.net-snmp.org/dev/release-policy.html for more
information.

You say to check out the latest 5-7 branch - I've been unable to clone the
> repository in the past as git conenctions are blocked by the company
> firewall. What is the latest 5-7 branch - Is it a patch branch??
>

Yes, the 5.7 branch is a patch branch. The current state of that branch is
5.7.1-pre1+ additional bug fixes.

Does the new patch effectively include the
> fix-windows-perl-test-lockup.patch fix i.e I assume my tests won't lock
> up.
>

The fix-windows-perl-test-lockup.patch was a quick hack that avoided the
lockup during running the Perl regression tests but wasn't a full solution.
A full explanation of why the lockup occurred and why such a large patch is
necessary can be found here:
http://net-snmp.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=net-snmp/net-snmp;a=commit;h=97d6432f95e1cdcf6fd85e7ca1d0c5557eb6d919
.

Bart.

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