From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: RRuegner Subject: Re: newbie struggling with p-o-m in kernel 2.6 Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 09:39:31 +0100 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <4052C8C3.9080207@ruegner.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Andrew Schulman Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Andrew Schulman schrieb: > Hello. I'm a newbie to patch-o-matic, though comfortable with patching > and building my own kernels. > > I'm running kernel 2.6.3, and I'd like to install the 'condition' and > 'time' extensions to netfilter. But I'm having a really hard time of > it. Here's as well as I can figure it right now: > > - patch-o-matic, it seems, doesn't work at all with kernel 2.6. I can't > find any statement about this on netfilter.org, but someone in a > newsgroup said it was so, and when I try to apply patches with p-o-m it > fails with complaints about not finding Config.help etc. Shouldn't this > be a FAQ? > > - I grabbed patch-o-matic-ng-20040302, and tried it. But it won't apply > the condition and time patches, because both of them are marked 'linux > < 2.6.0'. > > So as far as I can tell, right now someone who wants to use the > condition and time extensions with kernel 2.6 is just out of luck. Am I > right, or is there some other technique that I'm missing? Do we have an > ETA for 2.6-compliant condition and time patches? > > Also, a couple of minor complaints from a newbie: > > - It seems that all of the old patch suite structure is gone, but the > docs haven't caught up yet. The Netfilter Extensions HOWTO is very > nice, but unfortunately it's no longer accurate. The newbie is left to > discover this for himself and guess that where before he would run e.g. > './runme extra/condition', the new command is './runme condition'. > > - Even though I try to run runme in batch mode, it always asks where my > iptables source code is. Looking through the script, there doesn't seem > to be an environment variable to set for that. > > I realize that p-o-m-ng is a work in progress. Please consider these to > be constructive suggestions for improvement. > > Longer term, what is the plan for getting all of these useful extensions > merged into the main kernel line? > > Thanks for your help. > Andrew. > Hi Andrew, youre right pom-ng is currently under Testing mode watch out the list for statements from the coders Regards