On jeudi, 8 octobre 2020 09.19:06 h CEST Simon Matter wrote: > > On mercredi, 7 octobre 2020 18.26:36 h CEST Matt Darfeuille wrote: > >> Following Tom's advice, moving this (entire thread (1)) to the devel > >> list. > >> > >> Any thoughts on the below (the patch in question (2) is reattached > >> here)? > >> > >> 1) > >> https://sourceforge.net/p/shorewall/mailman/shorewall-users/thread/d83aa9 > >> a26 > >> 26c6459f58f671af768b570.squirrel%40webmail.bi.corp.invoca.ch/#msg3712174 > >> 3 2) > >> > >> Release repository, master branch, patch file: > >> release-master-1-20.10.07.17.04.57-rfc.patch > >> > >> -------- Forwarded Message -------- > >> Subject: Re: [Shorewall-users] Shorewall reload doesn't reload? > >> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 08:49:47 -0700 > >> From: Tom Eastep <teas...@shorewall.net> > >> Reply-To: Shorewall Users <shorewall-us...@lists.sourceforge.net> > >> To: shorewall-us...@lists.sourceforge.net > > > > Moving files in a pre/post section is normally creating orphan files, > > which > > afterward belong to no packages, which is not what we have as rules at > > least > > on openSUSE. > > Well, in most shorewall packages I've seen they don't control anything in > /var/lib/shorewall so moving files there doesn't make anything worse. > > The only way to handle it would be to define %ghost files in the RPM and > I've never tried that because the files in /var/lib/shorewall changed > between releases and it's too much work to find them out. >
Also you have to think of all usage people can deploy shorewall. The most tricky one is what your package will have to do if the admin has a local shorewall primary build system with a distributed shorewall-lite devices in the network ;-) Not all will have put their configuration away of the traditional directory layout. > > I agree with Simon point of view. Upgrade the system, but no automatic > > upgrade, as you can too easily lockup everyone out if a problem occur. > > Better save than sorry, yes :-) > > Regards, > Simon > -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot _______________________________________________ Shorewall-devel mailing list Shorewall-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-devel
