[Bug 1717752] Re: netaddr should use symlink in /var/lib instead of /usr/share

[zebul666]

But what I describe above is not enough. Because netaddr module use
index files, generated from oui.txt and iab.txt

So you need also to update those index files otherwise the mac vendor
look up will be broken.

So I created symlinks in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/netaddr/eui
for oui.idx and iab.idx towards /var/lib/ieee-data/oui.idx and /var/lib
/ieee-data/iab.idx respectivelly.

Then used that python script to regenerate the index files

from netaddr.eui import ieee
ouiidx = ieee.FileIndexer('oui.idx')
oui = ieee.OUIIndexParser('oui.txt')
oui.attach(ouiidx)
oui.parse()
oui.detach(ouiidx)

iabidx = ieee.FileIndexer('iab.idx')
iab = ieee.IABIndexParser('iab.txt')
iab.attach(iabidx)
iab.parse()
iab.detach(iabidx)

I don't know how you could manage this at the package level ? But this
is really needed

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
OpenStack, which is subscribed to python-netaddr in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1717752

Title:
  netaddr should use symlink in /var/lib instead of /usr/share

Status in python-netaddr package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  netaddr python package uses 2 files oui.txt and iab.txt to make mac
  address look up and others.

  However, the files

  /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/netaddr/eui/iab.txt
  /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/netaddr/eui/oui.txt

  are symlinks to, respectively,
  /usr/share/ieee-data/iab.txt
  /usr/share/ieee-data/oui.txt

  from the package ieee-data.

  But if you update the files with update-ieee-data, the updated files
  lies in /var/lib/ieee-data and not in /usr/share/ieee-data

  So the python package will continue to use the old ones.

  The fix is simple. Use symlink towards
  /var/lib/ieee-data/iab.txt
  /var/lib/ieee-data/oui.txt
  respectively instead

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
  Package: python-netaddr 0.7.18-2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-33.37-generic 4.10.17
  Uname: Linux 4.10.0-33-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7
  Date: Sun Sep 17 09:48:33 2017
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-22 (482 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: python-netaddr
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2017-04-14 (155 days ago)

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-netaddr/+bug/1717752/+subscriptions