On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 23:37:11 +0200 (MEST)
"Svetoslav Slavtchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> i'm trying to update firestarter
> in order to use it under 2.6 test kernels,
> the original src.rpm requires iptables
> and  we have two packages for iptables 
> one for 2.4 kernel & one for 2.6 kernel

I think the reason that the iptables package in main doesn't work on 2.6 is
the same as the reason it doesn't work on 2.4.22 vanilla in bug:
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5454

So essentially the contrib package shouldn't be needed. I tried with
iptables-1.2.9-rc1. Compiled against 2.4.22-18mdk, it doesn't work in
2.6.0-test8, while when it is compiled against vanilla 2.4.22, 2.4.23-pre1 or
2.4.23-pre7, SNAT/POSTROUTING works ok for me. 
The Mandrake kernel is based on 2.4.23-pre1, so something is wrong in the
mandrake kernel then.
To be clear, I didn't test more rules, and I didn't test it on one of the
vanilla 2.4 kernels, but I blindly assume the behaviour is the same.

If you're upgrading firestarter for mdk 10.0, then the priority should be on
fixing this kernel bug.
But it shouldn't hurt to use the virtual provides as a requires, it's probably
a good thing.

--
Marcel Pol



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