I wanted to install the successor of ucdsnmp, which is net-snmp (http://net-snmp.sf.net). However, this does not seem so easy. Does any have experience with installing net-snmp from an rpm on suse? I tried to install the net-snmp rpm from redhat, but that does not match with the libraries that suse (8.2) has installed and what the rpms requires. Alright no big deal, have the src.rpm rebuild I thought. So, I went ahead and started to build the rpm as regular user. To my big surprise the rpm build wanted to install binaries in the current file system (/usr, /etc, etc...) instead of /tmp/build-root/{usr,etc} etc. It seems the net-snmp Makefile does not accept the "make DESTDIR=... install" construct.... Is this a "bug" in the net-snmp sources, and it be done otherwise? So, I went of to the next trick and started to use "build", which sets up an chroot-ed environment to build the rpms. Now to my big surprise not all files are installed in the chroot-ed environment but in the "host" environment (see output below). Why does that happen? Is that a bug in rpm, the "build" script, something else??? All in all, I learned a lot. But I still don't have an rpm? Any one? Last thought, why does suse still distributes the "older" ucdsnmp package instead of the newer net-snmp package? Will the newer version provided in suse90? -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless + /bin/mkdir -p /tmp/net-snmp-root/usr/share/doc/packages/net-snmp + cp -pr AGENT.txt ChangeLog CodingStyle COPYING /tmp/net-snmp-root/usr/share/doc/packages/net-snmp + cp -pr EXAMPLE.conf.def FAQ INSTALL NEWS PORTING TODO /tmp/net-snmp-root/usr/share/doc/packages/net-snmp + cp -pr README README.agentx README.hpux11 README.krb5 /tmp/net-snmp-root/usr/share/doc/packages/net-snmp + cp -pr README.snmpv3 README.solaris README.thread README.win32 /tmp/net-snmp-root/usr/share/doc/packages/net-snmp + exit 0 PreReq: openssl /bin/sh Obsoletes: cmu-snmp ucd-snmp ucd-snmp-utils Processing files: net-snmp-devel-5.0.9-rb1 File not found: /tmp/net-snmp-root/usr/include File not found by glob: /tmp/net-snmp-root/usr/lib/*.a File not found by glob: /tmp/net-snmp-root/usr/lib/*.la Requires: net-snmp = 5.0.9 Obsoletes: cmu-snmp-devel ucd-snmp-devel