Re: [gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter?

[Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>]

On Wednesday 06 June 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I had firestarter-1.0.3 emerged for quite some time.  I hadn't really
> used it, but I'm a bit surprised now to find that it's interfering
> with normal emerges because it's got a big red "M" smacked on it.
>
> I suppose that means there's a problem with it, and it's explained in
> some forum or list that I don't normally get.  But now I'd like a
> clue: what's the {prognosis, workaround, fix, alternative}. As I
> mentioned, I hadn't really started to use it, but I'd like to have a
> better firewall tool than building iptables scripts in vim.

I find it useful to read the new entries in 
$PORTDIR/profile/package.mask after every sync to see what's recently 
been nuked:

# Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@gentoo.org> (30 May 2007)
# masked for removal on 20070629
# Upstream is dead and there are several open bugs:
# http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146620
# http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179792
# http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180104
# http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180105
# See 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.firewalls.firestarter.user/1342
# for a thread on the mailing list regarding the state of things, 
including
# mention of the problems with the newest netfilter code.
net-firewall/firestarter


alan


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Alan McKinnon
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