Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] OSX packaging lacks SNMP MIBs - was Need installation help
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:58:47 -0700, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Martin Visser wrote:
>
>> This seems to be a well-known bug -
>> http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users/200903/msg00061.html
>
> It's even in the bug database:
>
> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3163
>
> The underlying problem appears to be that, to quote my first comment
> in that bug, "The OS X package for Wireshark comes with its own copy
> of libsmi (all the libraries it requires that don't come with OS X are
> supplied in the Resources directory of the app bundle), but doesn't
> appear to come with libsmi's MIBs or PIBs." If we bundle them with
> the OS X package for Wireshark, we should then set up Wireshark and
> its copy of libsmi so that libsmi searches the directory containing
> the MIBs and PIBs in the app bundle (which means the directory has to
> be determined at run time, given that you can drag and drop the app
> bundle anywhere you have permission to do so).
>
> Yes, OS X has its own collection of MIBs, but those are for the Net-
> SNMP bundled with OS X and, to quote my second comment, "However, if
> libsmi has more MIBs than Net-SNMP, we still might want to include
> libsmi's MIBs."
I don't know if it helps, but I've solved a similar problem in a custom
Debian Installer I build. Here some extra MIBs needed to be installed. It's
done by means of adding an smi_paths file to the installer, containing
"/usr/share/wireshark/mibs" (which matches the applicable directories used
in the build of the .deb). I guess the dynamic location of the installed
package would make it impossible to prepare an smi_paths this way. I don't
know if the library can handle expansion though.
diff -ur --strip-trailing-cr wireshark-1.2.1/Makefile.am
wireshark-1.2.1-X/Makefile.am
--- wireshark-1.2.1/Makefile.am 2009-08-12 16:11:25.781250000 +0200
+++ wireshark-1.2.1-X/Makefile.am 2009-08-12 16:13:39.218750000 +0200
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@
pkgdata_DATA = AUTHORS-SHORT COPYING manuf services wireshark.html \
tshark.html wireshark-filter.html capinfos.html editcap.html \
idl2wrs.html mergecap.html text2pcap.html dumpcap.html \
- rawshark.html ws.css cfilters colorfilters dfilters smi_modules
ipmap.html
+ rawshark.html ws.css cfilters colorfilters dfilters ipmap.html \
+ smi_modules smi_paths
#
# Install the Diameter DTD and XML files in the "diameter" subdirectory
@@ -238,22 +239,44 @@
wimaxasncp/dictionary.xml \
wimaxasncp/dictionary.dtd
+#
+# Install the extra mibs in the "mibs" subdirectory
+# of that directory
+#
+mibsdir = $(pkgdatadir)/mibs
+mibs_DATA = \
+ mibs/XA-MIB \
+ mibs/XB-MIB
+
Thanx,
Jaap
