Vieri Di Paola wrote: > --- Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 'shorewall' package has been renamed >> 'shorewall-common'. > ... >> In no case do you need to uninstall shorewall.
Did you read the above sentence?
>
> So shorewall < 4.0 and shorewall-common can coexist?
No.
>
> If I have shorewall-3.4.3 and want to upgrade to 4.0
> then would I need to install shorewall-common-4 and
> the shorewall-{compilers} ?
Yes
>
> So my system would have:
> shorewall-3.4.3
It would *not* have 3.4.3 installed. shorewall-common + shorewall-shell
provide exactly the same thing as Shorewall 3.4.4.
> shorewall-common-4.0.0
> shorewall-shell-4.0.0
> shorewall-perl-4.0.0
>
> Is that correct or would shorewall-3.4.3 have to be
> uninstalled?
See above.
>
> Somehow, I found that the naming continuity before
> Beta 7 was more convenient.
> Is there an advantage or necessity to introduce
> shorewall-common?
Beginning with Shorewall-4, there is no single package that provide
'shorewall'; you install one or both of the Shorewall compilers
(shorewall-shell and/or shorewall-perl). Either compiler requires a set of
common files (shorewall-common). Calling any of those three packages
'shorewall' doesn't really work, especially when you consider distribution
upgrade of RPM-based distros like Fedora or Foobar. The way that we have set
up the RPMs now is that both shorewall-shell and shorewall-perl have
"Provides: shorewall = ..." and shorewall-shell "Obsoletes: shorewall <=
4.0.0-Beta6". So an upgrade of a system with shorewall-3.x.x installed will
automatically install shorewall-common and shorewall-shell.
I don't want to continue the situation where all users have to install the
shell-based compiler whether they want it or not. Going forward, I would
prefer that new users install shorewall-perl + shorewall-common.
-Tom
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