Re: Debian 3.2 Sample Config Files?

Simon Hobson
Sun, 04 Mar 2007 11:36:32 -0000

Jon wrote:

>I am attempting to install Shorewall on a new Debian box. I tried
>installing it via apt-get, but found that the version in the repos is
>2.2.3-ish. I removed it and then sourced and installed 3.2. The install
>went well, but there are no documents or sample config files where I
>would expect to find them based on the documentation at the shorewall site.
>
>The following directories are mentioned at the Shorewall site, but do
>not exist on my system after installing the 3.2 deb.
>
>/usr/share/doc/shorewall/default-config

Three suggestions :

1) Grab the deb package for Etch and manually sort out any
dependencies. I see that my Etch box has Shorewall 3.2.6-2 installed.
This can be an ''interesting'' experience !

2) Look at the backports project (http://www.backports.org/) which
takes the newer packages and does all the hard work for you. I see
that also has 3.2.6.

3) Just grab the latest deb anyway, and manually extract the missing
files. I think "dpkg --extract <package>" is what you need.