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=== 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 [[http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/experimental-yum-repositories.phtml|sourceforge yum repository]] and in the [[http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=33063|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.

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