Bug#608635: snort: adds another -p to options on each re-install

2011-01-05 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
On 4 January 2011 17:45, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe mario.ho...@tu-ilmenau.de wrote: Oh, this reminds me... Do you intend to deal with the removed snort/reverse_order (-o)? It went away in 2.8.5.2-2, but is still present in lenny (2.7.0-20.4). I can't find anything about it in postinst. It was

Bug#608635: snort: adds another -p to options on each re-install

2011-01-04 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 09:17:34AM +0100, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: Yes, that's one I'm thinking of doing anyway, but did not want to introduce just yet to minimize the changes and make it possible for this package to go through the freeze. Ah, this is an argument. It might be that

Bug#608635: snort: adds another -p to options on each re-install

2011-01-04 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 05:18:47PM +0100, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: I downgraded to 2.8.5.2-5. Oh, this reminds me... Do you intend to deal with the removed snort/reverse_order (-o)? It went away in 2.8.5.2-2, but is still present in lenny (2.7.0-20.4). I can't find anything about it in

Bug#608635: snort: adds another -p to options on each re-install

2011-01-03 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
On 2 January 2011 23:36, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe mario.ho...@tu-ilmenau.de wrote: Well, setting up DEBIAN_SNORT_OPTIONS from two variables would probably also be an option. And probably a bit easier :) However, it's your package... :) Yes, that's one I'm thinking of doing anyway, but did not

Bug#608635: snort: adds another -p to options on each re-install

2011-01-02 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Package: snort Version: 2.8.5.2-6 Hello, the new snort.debian.conf handling adds a -p to snort/options on each re-install if snort/disable_promiscuous is true: # grep ^DEBIAN_SNORT_OPTIONS /etc/snort/snort.debian.conf DEBIAN_SNORT_OPTIONS= -p # aptitude reinstall snort

Bug#608635: snort: adds another -p to options on each re-install

2011-01-02 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
On 2 January 2011 11:44, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe mario.ho...@tu-ilmenau.de wrote: Package: snort Version: 2.8.5.2-6 Hello, the new snort.debian.conf handling adds a -p to snort/options on each re-install if snort/disable_promiscuous is true: (...) You are right, this is because the

Bug#608635: snort: adds another -p to options on each re-install

2011-01-02 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 10:23:24PM +0100, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: On 2 January 2011 11:44, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe You are right, this is because the DEBIAN_SNORT_OPTIONS value is read on package configuration and is used to populate the debconf values in case the admin manually