On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 20:21 -0700, 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?
> 
> E.g., @ Opensuse pkg,
> 
>       zypper info --requires shorewall-init
>               Loading repository data...
>               Reading installed packages...
> 
> 
>               Information for package shorewall-init:
>               ---------------------------------------
>               Repository: Netfilter
>               Name: shorewall-init
>               Version: 4.6.2.5-148.1
>               Arch: noarch
>               Vendor: obs://build.opensuse.org/security
>               Installed: Yes
>               Status: up-to-date
>               Installed Size: 63.2 KiB
>               Summary: Adds functionality to Shoreline Firewall (Shorewall)
>               Description: 
>               The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as "Shorewall", is 
> a Netfilter
>               (iptables) based firewall that can be used on a dedicated 
> firewall system,
>               a multi-function gateway/ router/server or on a standalone 
> GNU/Linux system.
> 
>               Shorewall Init is a companion product to Shorewall that allows 
> for tigher
>               control of connections during boot and that integrates 
> Shorewall with
>               ifup/ifdown and NetworkManager.
>               Requires:
>               /bin/bash
>               logrotate
> >>>           shorewall6 > 4.4.9
> >>>           shorewall > 4.4.9
>               /bin/sh
>               systemd
> 
This is not only on Suse, I found the same issue in the Epel Shorewall
version for RHEL. I was about to create a Bugzilla for that. 


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