Bug 368349

Summary:	=net-analyzer/ntop-3.3.10-r2 won't start with >=dev-libs/libevent-2*
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Veovis <veovis8>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Netmon project <netmon>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	ostroffjh
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/28457/initialize.c.diffs
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	376057
Bug Blocks:	333077

Description Veovis 2011-05-22 14:22:23 UTC

ntop compiles fine but does not run because it incorrectly detect version of libevent as inferior to 1.4.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. merge ntop
2. update libevent to the last stable version (which is >= 2.0)
2. set an ntop password as required
2. /etc/init.d/ntop start
3. tail /var/log/syslog to see ntop log
Actual Results:  
ntop refuses to start because of libevent version < 1.4

Expected Results:  
ntop runs because installed version (2.0.10) is > 1.4

I found this patch : https://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/28457/initialize.c.diffs which correctly detect installed libevent, and so allow ntop to run.
Tested on x86 platform.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-05-22 23:32:25 UTC

ew, that code in ntop should be removed entirely and not patched at all.

It looks like version 4.0.1 does the right thing.

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-07-13 14:49:36 UTC

Can't we stabilize 4.0.1 yet?

*ntop-4.0.1 (24 Sep 2010)

  24 Sep 2010; Alin Năstac <mrness@gentoo.org> +ntop-4.0.1.ebuild,
  +files/ntop-4.0.1-gentoo.patch:
  Version bump (#329577).

Comment 3 Jack 2011-07-13 15:33:29 UTC

I've been using ntop 4.0.1 with libevent 2.0.10 with no problems for over a month.  (amd64 system)

Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-07-26 17:59:39 UTC

OK, this is fixed in version >4 which is going stable.