On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 11:51 -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 02/07/07 11:12 CST:
> 
> > Okay, how does this sound (in the IPTables instructions in a note
> > right before the compilation commands):
> > 
> > [snip 1st version]
> 
> Okay, there's a two-fold issue.
> 
> 1) The existing Iptables instructions say to not expose the build
> to raw headers, else the build will fail. This is clearly wrong.

Agreed.

It didn't help that the contradicting information in the iptables
installations instructions looked several years out of date :)

> 2) A sentence or two needs to be included that mentions using the
> raw headers to build additional modules (with a caveat that you
> *may* need to recompile Iptables if you update your kernel version).
> 
> Does this seem to summarize adequately? I'll just wing it for now,
> and if it needs changing, we can do that before the official 6.2.0
> release. I'm going to put this in now, so that I can cut the rc2
> version.

Personally I think that's fine. Of course, it should call them
extensions not modules to save confusion.

Andy


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