Shorewall 4.4, which will be released late this year, will no longer include Shorewall-shell. There will be just four packages included in Shorewall 4.4: Shorewall - everything you need to create an IPv4 firewall (including the Perl-based compiler). Shorewall6 - requires Shorewall and adds everything you need to create an IPv6 firewall Shorewall-lite - same as in 4.2 Shorewall6-lite - same as in 4.2 Those of you who are still using Shorewall-shell should consider migrating to Shorewall-perl at the earliest opportunity. Don''t wait until your distribution drops Shorewall 4.4 on you in an upgrade. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H
Tom Eastep wrote:> Shorewall 4.4, which will be released late this year, will no longer > include Shorewall-shell. There will be just four packages included in > Shorewall 4.4: > > Shorewall - everything you need to create an IPv4 firewall (including > the Perl-based compiler). > > Shorewall6 - requires Shorewall and adds everything you need to create > an IPv6 firewall > > Shorewall-lite - same as in 4.2 > > Shorewall6-lite - same as in 4.2 > > Those of you who are still using Shorewall-shell should consider > migrating to Shorewall-perl at the earliest opportunity. Don''t wait > until your distribution drops Shorewall 4.4 on you in an upgrade. > > -Tom >Forgive me if I misunderstood, does that mean that systems-platforms that do not include perl in their distros like ( Bering uClibc, alpine uclibc ... and so on ) will not be supported anymore??? Regards Harry. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:08:21AM +0200, Harry Lachanas wrote:> Tom Eastep wrote: > > Shorewall 4.4, which will be released late this year, will no longer > > include Shorewall-shell. There will be just four packages included in > > Shorewall 4.4: > > > > Shorewall - everything you need to create an IPv4 firewall (including > > the Perl-based compiler). > > > > Shorewall6 - requires Shorewall and adds everything you need to create > > an IPv6 firewall > > > > Shorewall-lite - same as in 4.2 > > > > Shorewall6-lite - same as in 4.2 > > > > Those of you who are still using Shorewall-shell should consider > > migrating to Shorewall-perl at the earliest opportunity. Don''t wait > > until your distribution drops Shorewall 4.4 on you in an upgrade. > > > > -Tom > > > Forgive me if I misunderstood, does that mean that systems-platforms > that do not include perl in their distros > like ( Bering uClibc, alpine uclibc ... and so on ) will not be > supported anymore??? >That is not correct. They have the following options: - Continue with 4.2 (which will continue to be supported for some time) - Switch to 4.4 using -perl/-lite (Shorewall-perl runs anywhere that perl runs, uncluding cygwin) Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H