From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HvqbN-00055m-H3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:10:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5689KtC029209; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:09:20 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l56850ib024461 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:05:01 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD6AB8345D for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:15:54 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LdNU5Ah9HXbO for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:15:47 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFEE583448 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:15:47 +0200 (SAST) Received: from nazgul.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.68]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:06:42 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wha' hoppen to firestarter? Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:07:59 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <9acccfe50706052039w4686c6e5i6e6c586f56b71872@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50706052039w4686c6e5i6e6c586f56b71872@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706061007.59430.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Jun 2007 08:06:42.0734 (UTC) FILETIME=[9E5094E0:01C7A811] X-Archives-Salt: 8e26f288-fa05-4821-b420-6c400f03d7ff X-Archives-Hash: 5eda3557c460ed7188d428593f7d664b 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 (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 -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list