On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, George Georgalis wrote:

> 
> I even asked a few well read LUG groups what the lrp format was, or
> how I could run the lrcfg that I read about without actually booting
> the distro.  Nobody knew because the design is not conducive to group
> development, it's intended use is like that of proprietary software --
> take the binary, configure it with the configuration menu and be like
> everyone else.

This brings to mind a quote from Weitse Venema (the creator of Postfix):

        "It is easier to post a problem than to use your own brain"

[teastep@wookie test]$ ll
total 40
-rw-r--r--    1 teastep  teastep     39033 Jul 13 06:58 shorwall-1.3.3.lrp
[teastep@wookie test]$ file shorwall-1.3.3.lrp
shorwall-1.3.3.lrp: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Sat Jul 6 12:59:03 
2002, os: Unix
[teastep@wookie test]$ mv shorwall-1.3.3.lrp shorwall-1.3.3.lrp.gz
[teastep@wookie test]$ gunzip shorwall-1.3.3.lrp.gz
[teastep@wookie test]$ file shorwall-1.3.3.lrp
shorwall-1.3.3.lrp: GNU tar archive
[teastep@wookie test]$ tar -tf shorwall-1.3.3.lrp
etc/init.d/shorewall
etc/shorewall/
etc/shorewall/masq
etc/shorewall/policy
etc/shorewall/rules
etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
etc/shorewall/interfaces
etc/shorewall/nat
etc/shorewall/proxyarp
etc/shorewall/tunnels
etc/shorewall/zones
etc/shorewall/hosts
etc/shorewall/icmp.def
etc/shorewall/common.def
etc/shorewall/tos
etc/shorewall/modules
etc/shorewall/params
etc/shorewall/tcrules
etc/shorewall/blacklist
etc/shorewall/rfc1918
sbin/shorewall
var/lib/shorewall/
var/lib/shorewall/version
var/lib/shorewall/functions
var/lib/shorewall/firewall
var/lib/lrpkg/shorwall.conf
var/lib/lrpkg/shorwall.help
var/lib/lrpkg/shorwall.list
var/lib/lrpkg/shorwall.version
[teastep@wookie test]$

And that took much less time than it would have taken to post a question.

-Tom
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