On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 00:46:54 +0000, Pollywog wrote: > On Saturday 21 October 2006 23:57, Pollywog wrote: > > I have a Sarge system on which I am installing ipsets, in order to use > > ipsets with Shorewall firewall. > > > > I am following the instructions here: > > http://ipset.netfilter.org/install.html > > > > I downloaded the iptables source from the link on that page, but it doesn't > > say there whether I must remove the iptables package from my system before > > installing iptables as directed. > > > > Does anyone know whether I must remove the iptables package that is now on > > my system? > > > > BTW I am compiling a kernel from kernel.org sources and it has been patched > > for ipsets using "Patch-o-matic" The version is 2.6.17 > > > > > > 8) > > apt-get remove iptables > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > fail2ban ipset iptables shorewall webmin-shorewall > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 3 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. > After unpacking 3174kB disk space will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > > It appears that if I do remove the iptables package, I will have to install a > dummy iptables package if I want to keep fail2ban and shorewall.
It might be possible to use checkinstall to build a .deb package for your self-compiled version of iptables. This can then probably act as a drop-in replacement for the standard iptables package on your system. -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]