net-snmp-5.9.4

Build times (auto-updated)

• x86_64: 8m19s (2026-10-11 20:03 UTC, MAKEFLAGS=-j6)

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• Category: adapted/ (plain local-tracked directory, not a submodule – most of adapted/ isn’t – see scripts/add_adapted.sh’s own doc comment for why that script didn’t fit here: it only vendors existing AUR packages, and this package doesn’t exist on AUR at all).
• Why this exists: the user needed libnetsnmpagent.so.40.2.1 specifically. Official Arch net-snmp is at 5.9.5.2, shipping libnetsnmpagent.so.45.0.0 – a different soname (.so.45, not .so.40). Bisected via git history alone (no actual build-bisection needed): net-snmp’s Makefile.top sets LIBCURRENT/LIBAGE/LIBREVISION explicitly per release, and the real installed filename is .so.$((CURRENT-AGE)).$AGE.$REVISION (standard libtool-on-Linux convention, confirmed against the current 45.0.0 example: LIBCURRENT=45 LIBAGE=0 LIBREVISION=0 at the commit matching 5.9.5.2). Walked the file’s git log for the exact triplet giving (CURRENT-AGE)=40, AGE=2, REVISION=1 -> found LIBCURRENT=42 LIBAGE=2 LIBREVISION=1, set by commit a739ce674 (“version update for 5.9.4.pre2”, 2023-04-03) and unchanged through the real v5.9.4 tag (2023-08-15) – confirmed directly against that tag’s Makefile.top. The very next real release, v5.9.5 (2025-12-20), jumps straight to 45/0/0. So 5.9.4 is the last (and only full, non-.pre) release providing this exact soname – no 5.9.4.x point releases exist.
• Asked the user whether this should be a real new AUR submission (matching the [[icu74]]/icu75/icu76 “we maintain this legacy-version shim on AUR” pattern) or stay purely local – chose local-only, so this is NOT pushed to AUR, just a fork of the official Arch net-snmp PKGBUILD (gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/net-snmp) pinned to the v5.9.4 git tag, with pkgname carrying the version (net-snmp-5.9.4, matching this tree’s existing openssl-1.0-style versioned-fork naming).
• Libraries only, by design: package() keeps ONLY the real versioned .so.40.2.1 files (libnetsnmp, libnetsnmpagent, libnetsnmphelpers [actually produced as part of the agent lib set], libnetsnmpmibs, libnetsnmptrapd, libsnmp) and strips everything else (usr/bin, usr/include, unversioned .so symlinks, pkgconfig, share, perl/python modules) – so it coexists with the official net-snmp package instead of conflicting with it, same shim pattern as icu72/icu73/icu74-76’s “keep only the libraries” package() step. No explicit provides=() needed – makepkg’s automatic shared-library scan picks up the real sonames from the kept files.
• validpgpkeys (Net-SNMP Administrators key, verifying the signed git tag) – ran scripts/update_pgp_key_dir.sh before building, same as any validpgpkeys-bearing package.
• 2026-10-11: first build – namcap flagged a real missing dependency, libxcrypt (provides libcrypt.so.2, actually linked by libnetsnmpagent/libnetsnmpmibs/libnetsnmptrapd). Fixed, pkgrel 1 -> 2, rebuilt+republished clean. End state: x86_64, 5.9.4-2, confirmed libnetsnmpagent.so.40.2.1 present in the packaged files.