[Pkg-cacti-maint] error in cacti

[Paul Gevers]

> Ok. I agree that it is cleaner, but in newer upstream code, the max_oid
> argument is not the last argument of the function. I am not so much into
> php that I can tell if the order of your arguments make a difference,
> but as the arguments are unnamed, I expect that you can not add extra
> arguments in front of existing argument without careful checking. The
> point is, I am afraid of introducing even more regressions. That is why
> I prefer to revert to the hardcoded value. But as I am not so
> experienced in these kind of things in security fixes, I am willing to
> make the changes as you propose today, but can somebody check them?
> Please let me know a.s.a.p.

Hmm, I really don't see how this can be done without changing quite a
lot of code. cacti_snmp_walk is called in 5 files:

./lib/data_query.php
./scripts/ss_host_cpu.php
./scripts/query_host_cpu.php
./scripts/query_host_partitions.php
./scripts/ss_host_disk.php

And as upstream put the max_oids argument as the next-to-last argument
we need to change all those functions. But what to put in that field?
The max_oids is not available from somewhere as-is (see upstream bug

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 262 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-cacti-maint/attachments/20120122/1728f964/attachment.pgp>