Shorewall users - Jun 2010 - [BUG]: bc package dependency not included in shorewall rpm (version 4.4.8)

I spotted this when tried to built a bare-bones/minimalistic Linux 
(FC13-based) version to be deployed on one of my machines (using 
kickstart files).

When I include the kernel and shorewall packages (with very little else) 
to be installed by yum/rpm, the bc package (providing Math functions to 
shorewall) is NOT included and neither is listed as a dependency 
necessary to run shorewall.

The shorewall starts and works perfectly well without this package, 
though when I try to execute ''shorewall iprange'' I get an
error from a
library in /usr/share, which is caused by missing bc package. Once this 
package is installed the problem goes away!

I am using shorewall version 4.4.8. Don''t know whether this is fixed in
later versions?

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Hi Mr Dash Four,

Each time I have built a Router/Firewall with OS Ubuntu/Lenny, I am prompted
to install the bc package.
 
This has me believing the Debian version of Shorewall has the bc package
dependency defined, and that 
the bc package dependency not included in shorewall rpm (version 4.4.8) is a
bug.

Kind regards,
Trent

-----Original Message-----
From: Mr Dash Four [mailto:mr.dash.four@googlemail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 15 June 2010 6:47 AM
To: shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Shorewall-users] [BUG]: bc package dependency not included in
shorewall rpm (version 4.4.8)



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On 6/14/10 3:46 PM, Mr Dash Four wrote:
> 
> The shorewall starts and works perfectly well without this package, 
> though when I try to execute ''shorewall iprange'' I get an
error from a
> library in /usr/share, which is caused by missing bc package. Once this 
> package is installed the problem goes away!
> 
I don''t think I''m going to change this in the reference RPM;
maybe the
maintainers of the RedHat RPMs are interested in adding this dependency
in their .spec files.

-Tom
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> On 6/14/10 3:46 PM, Mr Dash Four wrote:
>>
>> The shorewall starts and works perfectly well without this package,
>> though when I try to execute ''shorewall iprange'' I
get an error from a
>> library in /usr/share, which is caused by missing bc package. Once this
>> package is installed the problem goes away!
>>
>
> I don''t think I''m going to change this in the reference
RPM; maybe the
> maintainers of the RedHat RPMs are interested in adding this dependency
> in their .spec files.
Hi Tom,

I will add the req to my own RHEL RPMs and I''m sure the Fedora
maintainer
will do the same there.

Regards,
Simon


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