newbie struggling with p-o-m in kernel 2.6

[Andrew Schulman <andrex-cmaem7PIVQQM4YKboWzA4l6hYfS7NtTn@public.gmane.org>]

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.

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