Bug 256847 – dev-perl/SNMP_Session-0.92-r1 has typo in BER.pm

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dan Thorson 2009-01-29 20:58:06 UTC]

I suspect the "upstream" coders should fix this, but I don't know if this code is being actively maintained....

anyway:

When using BER.pm (part of dev-perl/SNMP_Session-0.92-r1) I get the following:
Possible precedence problem on bitwise | operator at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/BER.pm line 611.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use SNMP_util in perl code
2. get warning





The fix is well published on TheGoogleNet... change line 611 in BER.pm as follows:

$ diff BER.pm.orig BER.pm.new
611c611
<     return error ("Sequence expected") unless $result == sequence_tag | constructor_flag;
---
>     return error ("Sequence expected") unless $result == sequence_tag or constructor_flag;

[Comment 1 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2009-01-30 08:07:54 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I suspect the "upstream" coders should fix this, but I don't know if this code
> is being actively maintained....

It was fixed in a later version.
Latest version (1.12) is in the tree now.

Thanks for the report.

[Comment 2 Dan Thorson 2009-01-30 14:37:25 UTC]

Thanks for the quick response on this bug.  Question for you: you said that the latest version of SNMP_Session (1.12) is now in the tree, but I'm not seeing it after I do an "emerge --sync".  How long does it typically take for your change to replicate to the misc mirrors?

[Comment 3 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2009-01-30 15:25:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Thanks for the quick response on this bug.  Question for you: you said that the
> latest version of SNMP_Session (1.12) is now in the tree, but I'm not seeing it
> after I do an "emerge --sync".  How long does it typically take for your change
> to replicate to the misc mirrors?

Typically it takes an hour. Maybe your mirror was out of sync?

http://mirrorstats.gentoo.org/rsync/
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-perl/SNMP_Session/

[Comment 4 Dan Thorson 2009-01-30 16:01:54 UTC]

Hmm, had sync'd before... must have just missed the replication, as the new code is now availble on my system.

Thanks again.

[Comment 5 Dan Thorson 2009-01-30 16:12:16 UTC]

Release 1.12 tested OK for me on x86.  Do we need to open a new bug request that it marked stable on x86?

[Comment 6 Dan Thorson 2009-01-30 20:16:59 UTC]

Ahh, I revoke my request for stable on x86.  There is an issue in v1.12 in the SNMP_util.pm file.  Parsing of comments in "sub snmpMIB_to_OID" is incorrect, which leads to issues with parsing of the latest CISCO-PRODUCTS-MIB.my file.  I am reporting that bug to the upstream coders ([e-mail]).