After gaining some experience with the new release model, it has become apparent to me that a small adjustment is warrented. I previously announced that updates to the stable release would only contain bug fixes. I''m modifying that slightly to allow for small low-risk enhancements; large and/or risky enhancements will still be restricted to the development release. We have seen this change at work already in the 2.0.6 release where I implemented the PKTTYPE option in shorewall.conf; in the upcoming 2.0.7 release, additional information will be displayed by "shorewall status". -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net
K.-P. Kirchdörfer
2004-Aug-07 18:50 UTC
Re: Small Modification to the Shorewall Release Model
Tom; enjoy your vacation - no immediate response awaited. I just looked in that mail again, because i wanted to enhance the shorewall documentation for LEAF Bering-uClibc. With the previously announced model it was easy to upgrade within a stable version series and preserve _all_ the settings - only doc enhancements in the configuration files would be lost - but therefor you do provide the good documentation on your web-site. With this change users has to be aware, if they affected by the standard setting (in this case PKTTYPE) and better do a (complete) re-configuration or if they can go with an "easy upgrade path". Find my "easy upgrade path" for LEA Bering-uClibc attached below, so you may better understand what I''m talking about. I have no objection if you still decide to go with the new model, will remove the section from the docs - just like to know. thx for your attention. kp Am Donnerstag, 22. Juli 2004 00:29 schrieb Tom Eastep:> After gaining some experience with the new release model, it has become > apparent to me that a small adjustment is warrented. I previously > announced that updates to the stable release would only contain bug > fixes. I''m modifying that slightly to allow for small low-risk > enhancements; large and/or risky enhancements will still be restricted > to the development release. > > We have seen this change at work already in the 2.0.6 release where I > implemented the PKTTYPE option in shorewall.conf; in the upcoming 2.0.7 > release, additional information will be displayed by "shorewall status". > > -Tom*** the update section I mentioned*** To update to a new shorwall.lrp package for Bering-uClibc you just need to: - Download the latest shorewall-x.y.lrp package from Tom''s download area - Copy the file as shorwall.lrp to your boot media and to the root directory of your LEAF router. - Save your configuration from /etc/shorewall/* in /tmp. - Install new shorwall.lrp - Copy your saved configuration back from /tmp to /etc/shorewall. - Save shorwall.lrp via lrcfg back-up facility.
K.-P. Kirchdörfer wrote:> > Find my "easy upgrade path" for LEA Bering-uClibc attached below, so you may > better understand what I''m talking about. > > I have no objection if you still decide to go with the new model, will remove > the section from the docs - just like to know. >I don''t think there is any chance that there will be a change in the stable thread that will warrent a complete reinstall. When I add an option to shorewall.conf, I always select the default so that the behavior won''t change when users follow the upgrade instructions that you included in your post. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ teastep@shorewall.net