On 2/8/06, Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 07 Feb 2006 21:27, WauloK wrote:
> On 2/8/06, Derek Jennings < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 Feb 2006 21:07, WauloK wrote:
> > > Mandriva 2006 only has 2.4.1 but 3.0.4 is out. Should I just use the
> >
> > Fedora
> >
> > > noarch?
> > >
> > >
> > > shorewall-3.0.4-1.fc5.noarch.html<
> >
> > http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/deve
> >
> > >l/i386/shorewall-3.0.4-1.fc5.noarch.html> Iptables-based
> > > firewall for Linux systems Fedora Extras Development for i386
> > > shorewall-3.0.4-1.fc5.noarch.rpm <
> >
> > ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/extras/deve
> >
> > >lopment/i386/shorewall-3.0.4-1.fc5.noarch.rpm>
> > >
> > > I would have thought that something as important as a firewall package
> > > would be updated fairly often. There's a guy doing shorewall packages
> >
> > but
> >
> > > only for 10.1
> > >
> > > I suppose I could build the package myself ;)
> >
> > Cooker has 3.0.4 you could rebuild the src rpm if you liked, but
> > personally I
> > do not see the point. Just because 3.0.4 is out does not mean that 2.4 no
> > longer works.
> >
> > If there was a security vulnerability with 2.4 there would be an update.
> >
> > If there was some new feature in 3.0.4 you wanted to use, then there
> > would a
> > point in upgrading.
> > If you do upgrade you had better read the release notes. It looks as if
> > the
> > configuration file format has changed a bit.
> >
> > Thanks Derek!
> >
I just realised. Shorewall's architecture is 'noarch' so you would not even
need to rebuild the Cooker package. You could just install it, except there
may be some dependencies with drakconf due to the changes in the config file
format.
derek
Thanks again.
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