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On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 01:55:24AM -0600, Justin Vander Ziel wrote: |
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: Hello folks. |
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: 1. I managed to revise the iptables-1.1.2.ebuild script to handle |
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: iptables-1.2 -- and it worked! That is, except for one small problem: I |
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: forgot to build a package list for ebuild and BTW, how do I do this? |
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That's the nifty thing about the portage system--it takes care of |
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creating the packing list. |
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: 2. the ebuild script chokes on versions such as in autofs-4.0.0-pre9.tar.bz2 |
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: (with accompanying ebuild file) -- when I do |
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: # ebuild autofs-4.0.0-pre9.ebuild merge |
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That's not a valid name for an ebuild. Try something like |
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"autofs-4.0.0_p9.ebuild". Then in the ebuild, explicitly set $P to the |
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package name to use (eg "P=autofs-4.0.0-pre9") |
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: 4. kernel confusion |
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: When all is said and done why not just go with 2.4.0 stable? My neophyte |
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: logic says that if it's a final kernel release that has been blessed by |
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: Linus than at the very least, it must be more stable than the 2.3.X series |
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: or the 2.4.0-testX series (I don't know where the ac1/2/3 fit into this). |
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Ahh, grasshopper. When many release cycles you've been through, trust a |
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point-oh release you will not. |
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: 5. xinetd vs. tcpwrappers (a.k.a tcpd) |
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: OK, xinetd already provides the services of tcpwrappers so why would you |
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: want to install both by default as it is implied on the Gentoo home page? |
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Choice. Some applications (like exim and I think sudo) have intrinsic |
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support for tcpwrappers. These are a few other services (that I can't |
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think of off the top of my head). Anyway, lots of daemonizing services |
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have support for tcpwrappers. Some people find the syntax of |
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/etc/hosts.allow for the one or two services they run, to be a lot |
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simplier than setting up firewall rules. |
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: 6. app suggestions |
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: I haven't seen a master plan/list regarding what get's included in the |
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: production release -- although I do think that it should be limited to one |
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: CD -- AT MOST. IMHO there is definitely such a thing as too many apps. The |
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I agree. Just so long as the apps are the ones that I want. 8) |
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: 9. Nifty cd package label in ps if your interested. |
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: I spent a little time in Photoshop LE (I don't have $600 smackers to pay for |
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: the real thing!) and whipped this up. I think it's attractive but it's not |
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: exactly 'production quality'. Anyways if you want a copy I'll send you a |
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: postscript file with the cd label and jacket for gentoo 1.0 rc3 |
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Hey, I'd dig a copy of that. |
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--Jerry |
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name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a |
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phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death... |
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email: jerry@××××××.com || ...It's much more important |
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|| than that! |