Thread: [Devil-linux-develop] Minimal build for router.

Hello,

This week I have been rather busy trying to get a DL system up with the
latest 1.4.0-rc3. Because this setup is going to be for a router that
hardly needs anything more then just the firewall stuff and routing
stuff I disabled almost everything in my config, but this resulted in a
few little problems that were not properly fixed in the dependency tree
(I think).

1. One of the scripts uses rsync to put some config in place, but if
rsync is not available this fails. Have changed the script so it uses
tar instead to copy the whole set of files that is needed.

2. While parted is not needed in my setup as far as I know it was
compiled anyway, but this failed because device-mapper support was not
available. I change the --enable-device-mapper into
--disable-device-mapper and that fixed the build of this package. Don't
know the impact though, but I suspect none because I have not included
parted in my system as far as I know.

3. I need wide-dhcpv6 to pickup a prefix delegation for my network from
my ADSL profider. This was not available so I hacked it in myself. Is
their any interest to put this package in the main tree?


Greetings,
Jan Hugo Prins

Jan,

Quoting Jan Hugo Prins <jh...@jh...>:

> Hello,
>
> This week I have been rather busy trying to get a DL system up with the
> latest 1.4.0-rc3. Because this setup is going to be for a router that
> hardly needs anything more then just the firewall stuff and routing
> stuff I disabled almost everything in my config, but this resulted in a
> few little problems that were not properly fixed in the dependency tree
> (I think).

I have no doubt that you're right. ;-)

> 1. One of the scripts uses rsync to put some config in place, but if
> rsync is not available this fails. Have changed the script so it uses
> tar instead to copy the whole set of files that is needed.

Could you send in a patch for this, so we can fix it?

> 2. While parted is not needed in my setup as far as I know it was
> compiled anyway, but this failed because device-mapper support was not
> available. I change the --enable-device-mapper into
> --disable-device-mapper and that fixed the build of this package. Don't
> know the impact though, but I suspect none because I have not included
> parted in my system as far as I know.

We'll need to just add the 'menuconfig' stuff for it, anybody have a  
patch already?

> 3. I need wide-dhcpv6 to pickup a prefix delegation for my network from
> my ADSL profider. This was not available so I hacked it in myself. Is
> their any interest to put this package in the main tree?


-- 

Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
   http://www.devil-linux.org


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Hi Heiko,

this is an old mail I reply to. It has been of my radar for a long time,
but now I need to rebuild my firewall and I run into some issues again
so I just pick up where I left of the last time.

>> 1. One of the scripts uses rsync to put some config in place, but if
>> rsync is not available this fails. Have changed the script so it uses
>> tar instead to copy the whole set of files that is needed.
> Could you send in a patch for this, so we can fix it?
>
The change is very straight forward.
I replaced the line that has the rsync in the conntrack-tools script to:

tar cf - doc/*/*.conf doc/*/*.sh doc/*/*/*README | (cd
$ETCDIR/etc/conntrackd && tar xf - ) || exit 1

This does the same but doesn't need rsync.

>> 2. While parted is not needed in my setup as far as I know it was
>> compiled anyway, but this failed because device-mapper support was not
>> available. I change the --enable-device-mapper into
>> --disable-device-mapper and that fixed the build of this package. Don't
>> know the impact though, but I suspect none because I have not included
>> parted in my system as far as I know.
> We'll need to just add the 'menuconfig' stuff for it, anybody have a  
> patch already?
>
I have seen that this is fixed. Thanks for that.

>> 3. I need wide-dhcpv6 to pickup a prefix delegation for my network from
>> my ADSL profider. This was not available so I hacked it in myself. Is
>> their any interest to put this package in the main tree?
I still have this available if you are interested.

Beside that I have some more dependencies I have found that might need
some attention.
perl needs tcp-wrappers for one of the plugins.
Layer7 netfilter patches don't work on a 3.2 kernel

The following options were new in the build run of the prepare script:
X86_32_IRIS
PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING
IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
COMPACTION
TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
CLEANCACHE
X86_RESERVE_LOW
OLPC
CRYPTO_DEV_HIFN_795X

During the following day's I might come with more ;-)


Jan Hugo Prins