On 3/28/12 11:49 AM, "Togan Muftuoglu" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On 03/28/2012 04:13 PM, Tom Eastep wrote:
>> Beta 4 is now available for testing.
>> 
>> In this version:
>> 
>> 1)  Problems reported against Beta 3 have been corrected, including:
>> 
>>      - Installing the RPM fails to install ~/.shorewallrc
>>         - Syntax error in the default /etc/init.d/shorewall
>> 
>> 4)  TEMPDIR has been added as a configuration option in .shorewallrc.
>>     When specified, it causes the generated script to export TMPDIR
>>     with the specified value.
>> 
>>     Note: The different spelling in the option is intentional
>>           to avoid overwriting the TMPDIR setting of shell programs
>>           that source .shorewallrc.
>> 
>> 3)  A configure script has been added to each package. The arguments to
>>     the script are the usual list of <option>=<value> assignments. The
>>     supported options are the same as those listed in the release
>>     notes, although they may be in lower case and may be optionally
>>     preceded by '--'.
>> 
>>     The configure script uses the setting of --host to select the
>>     appropriate rc file. It reads that file to establish default
>>     settings and then applies the values specified in the argument
>>     list. To allow use with the %configure RPM macro, only the last
>>     occurrence of a particular option setting is applied. The resulting
>>     settings are written to a file named 'shorewallrc' in the current
>>     working directory and are also written to standard out.
>> 
>
>As the official opensuse maintainer of your shorewall packages I urge
>you to to fix your shorewallrc.suse as a courtesy to follow distribution
>packaging guidelines
>
>
>LIBEXECDIR=/usr/lib
>PERLLIBDIR= /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.14.2
>
>The above is what translates %perl_vendorlib at least for opensuse 12.1
>and later

I'm happy with the first recommended change but question the second. If a
user installs on an OpenSuSE version earlier than 12.1, then I suspect
that Shorewall won't work at all.

-Tom
You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to
skydive twice.





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