There's a couple of fairly recent discussions in the forums about snort on Sparc:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-314212.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-456504.html

>From what I see there, the package is masked because it's broken on Sparc.


That was a couple of months ago, though, so things may have changed.

Ralph Mitchell


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From: gentuxx [mailto:gentuxx@...]
Sent: Thu 8/3/2006 2:57 AM
To: gentoo-sparc@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-sparc] Snort?
 
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I noticed this:

* net-analyzer/snort
     Available versions:  -2.4.5 [M]2.6.0
     Installed:           none
     Homepage:            http://www.snort.org/
     Description:         Libpcap-based packet
sniffer/logger/lightweight IDS


I'm not sure what '-' and '[M]' means in eix, quite yet.  (I've just
started using eix.)  I also noticed in packages.gentoo.org that it
isn't even on the map for sparc.  So, am I stuck with downloading the
sources, and managing it outside of portage?  I'd really rather not do
that.  Is it really that unstable?  Or is there just no one to build
the ebuild for sparc?  If it's the latter, I might be able to help,
but I'd like some insight before I go diving into a project like that.

Thanks.

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gentux
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