On 8/17/2014 8:21 PM, PGNd wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014, at 08:03 PM, Tom Eastep wrote:
>>> Does shorewall-init need to be installed on each remote target, or only on 
>>> the administrative machine?
> 
>> Shorewall-init must be installed on the firewall systems and the
>> PRODUCTS are those installed on the firewall systems.
> 
> That's now clear.  Thanks.
> 
> Must 'shorewall' & 'shorewall6' pkgs, then, be also installed on all systems 
> that have shorewall-init installed?
> 
> Or is the 'Requires' install dependency for both shorewall/shorewall6 by the 
> distro packaging incorrect, and just shorewall-lite+shorewall-init sufficient?

The packages that must be installed are those that are listed in the
PRODUCTS setting. And I don't believe that any package manager can
express that type of dependency since the end user configures PRODUCTS
after Shorewall-init is installed.

-Tom

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