Re: Debian 3.2 Sample Config Files?

Andrew Suffield
Sun, 04 Mar 2007 11:59:29 -0000

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:36:32AM +0000, Simon Hobson
wrote:
> 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.

Curiously enough, you can usually grab the .deb binary package from
sid and install it on sarge as-is - since there is no compiled code in
shorewall, there are no dependency issues. You''ll need a kernel update
from the one shipped with sarge, but aside from that it should work
fine.

It wouldn''t work for just about any other package, but it does work
for shorewall. For some reason Tom doesn''t appear to have developed
the fetish for backwards-incompatibility that plagues most projects.