Re: ip6tables and connection tracking

[Jörg Schütter <joerg@schuetter.org>]

Hello Fabio,

On Mon, 31 May 2004 21:28:47 +0200 (CEST)
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 31 May 2004, [ISO-8859-15] Jörg Schütter wrote:
> 
> > There are a lot of packages on your homepage which has additional ipv6
> > patches. But why are official debian packages shipped without the ipv6
> > support enabled? It's only a additional flag or something for the
> > maintainer to make them ipv6-ready.
> 
> Well there are several reasons. Sometimes packages need external patches
> to support ipv6.

mozilla-firefox for example is build by the maintainer without ipv6
enabled. Enabling it is no wizards job, here is the patch which worked
for me:

--- mozilla-firefox-0.8/build/package/debian/rules.orig 2004-05-28 22:27:13.000000000 +0200
+++ mozilla-firefox-0.8/build/package/debian/rules      2004-05-28 22:00:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 export BUILD_OPT=1
 export NO_STATIC_LIB=1
 # untested upstream - export USE_IPV6=$(shell cpp debian/testipv6 | sh -)
+USE_IPV6=$(shell cpp debian/testipv6 | sh -)
 export USE_PTHREADS=1
  
 nspr = libnspr3


Jörg

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