Nov
18
2008

Patch-O-Matic & Extras Repository

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 11:45:25 pm
(Posted Under: Linux Linux)
Since moving to gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r4 by virtual of severe breaking of my system using 2.6.8, some of my netfilter setup has been broken. Particularly, and not surprisingly, rules that rely on the extension modules not built into the new kernel.

On attempting to patch my kernel, the light bulb has gone off on an annoyance I've had for quite some time. The three main extensions I use are time, condition and account. The bugbear being that condition is part of the extras repository and has been seemingly missing from patch-o-matic for quite some time. I've previously been getting around this by using older versions of patch-o-matic with the condition extension. However, with 2.6.19, while I can force the patch into the kernel, it doesn't actually work. After much screwing around confirming that this was the issue with iptables telling me 'invalid argument', and trying to find a newer version of the extention, something I've been missing over the past few years became clear (with some good Google searches) - the extra repository still exists, but doesn't ship with patch-o-matic any more. You have to tell patch-o-matic to download it!

# ./runme --download
*Slaps forehead!* The netfilter website isn't the best documented thing in the world! It's only taken me a year (at least) to catch on to that!

In other news, I got udev finally working pretty nicely with 2.6.19-r4. Well, it seems that way anyway, though I haven't attempted a ppp connection using it, which was my real problem a few months ago.

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