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From: Ali Polatel <polatel@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Wha' hoppen to firestarter?
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:16:15
Message-Id: 20070606040708.GA7941@mars.solar
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter? by Dale
1 Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net> yazmış:
2 > Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
3 > > I had firestarter-1.0.3 emerged for quite some time. I hadn't really
4 > > used it, but I'm a bit surprised now to find that it's interfering
5 > > with normal emerges because it's got a big red "M" smacked on it.
6 > >
7 > > I suppose that means there's a problem with it, and it's explained in
8 > > some forum or list that I don't normally get. But now I'd like a
9 > > clue: what's the {prognosis, workaround, fix, alternative}. As I
10 > > mentioned, I hadn't really started to use it, but I'd like to have a
11 > > better firewall tool than building iptables scripts in vim.
12 > >
13 >
14 > This is from the Gentoo dev list.
15 >
16 <snip>
17 >
18 > So, if you like firestarter, better say something pretty soon. ;-)
19 >
20 > That help any??
21 >
22 > Dale
23 >
24 > :-) :-) :-)
25
26 Upstream is dead and there are many open bugs so it's a PITA to
27 maintain. Here are the open bugs about firestarter:
28
29 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146620
30 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179792
31 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180104
32 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180105
33
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35 ali polatel (hawking)
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