Monday 13h February 2006
Firewall
The shorewall package in Fedora Extras 4 had a major version upgrade from 2.4.6 to 3.0.4. This included a bunch of configuration file changes, so I spent an hour or so this morning upgrading my firewall. Seems OK.
PPTP Client
James pushed an upgrade of pptp to version 1.7.1. He also released RPM packages after just updating version but not bumping release back down to 1. Grr. I tweaked the spec file to fit in with my current cosmetic preferences, and also to include the new document file PROTOCOL-SECURITY (which basically just advises people to use some other protocol instead of PPTP). I released the updated packages locally, on the sourceforge yum repository and in the sourceforge release area.
There's also an update to the pptpconfig package (20060214), but James didn't touch that spec file so we're back to release 1 on that one. Packages updated locally, in the yum repo, and on sourceforge as per the pptp package.
Local Packages
Made some significant changes to the dovecot package:
- use the entire patch set from the rawhide package, and then patch in my own changes on top of them; this will make the package far more maintainable as it moves through the beta releases towards release 1.0
since none of the rawhide patches touch autotools input files, there's no need to regenerate the configure script, so I can remove the build-dependencies on all of the autotools; the major beneficial effect of this is that the same source package will now build on distributions as old as Red Hat 9 - yay!
- update to 1.0.beta3
the Diffie-Hellman SSL parameter-building job in the postinstall script had to be rewritten because upstream have split off that functionality from the main dovecot binary and created a helper, ssl-build-param (which needs to be told which file to create)
Having run the new package on my home server over the weekend without issues, I'm now releasing it.
I also updated pptp to 1.7.1 and pptpconfig to 20060214.
Fedora Extras
Updated pptp to 1.7.1.