On Tuesday 24 November 2009, Roberto C. Sánchez said something like: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:49:53PM -0900, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > 1. Ubuntu is stuck at 4.0.15 for Jaunty, and 4.2.10 for the most > > recent release. 4.2.10 is also the one going into the next LTS > > release. I really hope that gets upgraded to 4.4.x before release > > if they are going to be supporting it for the next five years. > > You can probably submit a bug asking for that. I do not keep track > of the Ubuntu releases, but I know that they go through an import > freeze, where packages are imported from Debian only by exception.
Reported. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shorewall-common/+bug/489480 > > 2. Ubuntu (and I assume Debian as well) defaults to not using the > > Perl compiler. > > That is not entirely accurate. In the pre-4.4 package structure, the > shorewall package was a dummy package that depended on > shorewall-shell. That was primarily so that people upgrading from old > releases where shorewall was the old shell-based compiler, would not > encounter a forced upgrade to the perl-based compiler. Nowadays, the > shorewall package has been transformed so that it is the perl-based > compiler. So, on a new Debian installation (Squeeze or Sid), if you > run 'apt-get install shorewall' you will end up with the perl-based > compiler, as the shell-based compiler is not available in 4.4. Hmm...I thought I did an 'apt-get install shorewall' and still got just the shell compiler. At least the config file said I'd use the shell compiler if I didn't put "perl" on the compiler line. j -- Joshua Kugler Part-Time System Admin/Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0x14EA086E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
