Re: ip6tables and connection tracking
On Mon, 31 May 2004, [ISO-8859-15] Jörg Schütter wrote:
> 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
Please repot a bug directly to mozilla-firefox maintainer. When it is that
trivial I don't think it's worth to put it in my archive, plus firebird
uses the same code as mozilla that is known to work fine on ipv6.
Fabio
PS feel free to comment me in your bug report
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