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paradigm-X
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 Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2013 11:25 pm Post subject: cannot install 'pftop' |
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I think this sort of issue should be reported here, but if not, kindly advise where it should go. I have tried to install pftop on a 32-bit Gentoo OS with emerge, but it failed with an ERROR:
net-firewall/pftop-0.7-r2::Gentoo failed (compile phase): Your OS/Version is not supported (i686-pc-linux-gnu), please report.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 93: Called src_compile
environment, line 2540: Called die
The specific snippet of code:
die "Your OS/Version is not supported (C${CHOST}), please report." |
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Hu
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| Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 3:35 am Post subject: |
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| How did you even manage to get that far? net-firewall/pftop is only keyworded for FreeBSD. The case statement that called die will succeed only for various BSD families. |
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paradigm-X
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| Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Hu wrote: | | How did you even manage to get that far? .... |
I would like to think that my strong will-power got me there.  It looks like a good program, and I sure would like to use it in Gentoo, where all good programs should feel at home anyway.
Thanks for letting me know. |
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Hu
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| Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| When I asked how you got this far, I wanted to know what changes you made to the system to convince the package manager even to attempt to install this package. It should have refused, because the package is not useful on Linux kernels. It is specifically for use with the BSD family packet filter/firewall. Even if you managed to install it on Linux, it would not be able to perform any useful operations because the Linux kernel Netfilter interface is different from the BSD family packet filter interface. |
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