From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Maarten Vanraes Subject: Re: xtables-addons ACCOUNT Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:31:23 +0200 Message-ID: <201010290931.23743.maarten@ba.be> References: <201010181712.03160.maarten@ba.be> <201010280932.49853.maarten@ba.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Bob Miller Op vrijdag 29 oktober 2010 00:20:38 schreef Jan Engelhardt: > On Thursday 2010-10-28 09:32, Maarten Vanraes wrote: > >I forgot to mention, i've installed 1.30 (still using 2.6.26) and it works > >now. But the sourceforge shows the 1.26 as the latest version; because > >it's bzip2 . > > Yeah, SF has dumb defaults (used to better some years ago) - worked around > now. Anyway since SF also killed its notification system, there is > http://freshmeat.net/projects/xtables-addons to which users > can subscribe to. > > >I had to go through all sorts of stuff to fine myself an xz-utils that > >was able to unpack the .tar.xz archive. > >Especially servers don't have that kind of support atm. > > xz 4.999 (released 2009Q1) should do. > It is included in openSUSE 11.3, 11.2, Fedora 14, 13, 12, and > most likely others. well, my point is that most others don't yet (eg: debian lenny). would it not be possible to ship a tar.gz or tar.bz2 for a while yet? .tar.xz isn't a common source extention for now and tar doesn't have a easy switch yet either. possibly until SF recognizes tar.xz as a source file? tia, Maarten