Bug 310201 – net-firewall/ipset: don't use epatch_user

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Piotr Piróg 2010-03-19 12:21:45 UTC]

Ipset ebuild don’t apply user patches – src_unpack()/epatch_user is missing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. copy patch to /etc/portage/patches/net-firewall/ipset/
2. emerge ipset

Actual Results:  
user patches do not get applied

Expected Results:  
user patches should get applied

[Comment 1 Piotr Piróg 2010-03-19 12:26:45 UTC]

Created attachment 224235 [details, diff]
Patch for ipset ebuild

[Comment 2 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2010-03-24 13:31:56 UTC]

Please provide use case where this is useful. Some packages, e.g. iptables, really need this to enable third party modules, while for ipset it looks like unnecessary.

[Comment 3 Robin Johnson 2010-03-25 20:20:07 UTC]

What user patches do you have for ipset?

[Comment 4 Piotr Piróg 2010-03-26 11:13:33 UTC]

I write one (http://gigant.informel.pl/~pitek/ipset-4.2-matchall.patch).
There is any reason why epatch_user shouldn’t be enabled for all ebuilds?

[Comment 5 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2010-03-26 14:36:51 UTC]

We intensionally limit use of epatch_user since it'll be impossible to support systems where users start to use patches we don't have. Actually epatch_user is just a hack until somebody introduces something better.

That said, if you want to have epatch_user or similar enabled for all ebuild, you may try to write your own bashrc script. e.g. sometime ago I did that and ended with http://dev.gentoo.org/~pva/bashrc but you may wish to modify it ...

So, I think this bug should be closed as WONTFIX, but I'll let Robin to do whatever he wants to do here :)

[Comment 6 Robin Johnson 2010-03-26 18:27:02 UTC]

piotr:
can you write up some docs for it and attach a newer version, and also send upstream? being able to require matching all of a set is a nice addition :-)

pva:
any objections to including his matchall patch directly once it's got some docs?

[Comment 7 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2010-03-27 06:22:35 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> pva:
> any objections to including his matchall patch directly once it's got some
> docs?

patch modifies kernel interface, so if somebody patched kernel manually with ipset sources this could became a problem. It's much better to send this patch upstream - Jozsef is rather fast and helpful.

[Comment 8 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2010-10-14 14:57:43 UTC]

Just noted this was submitted upstream and the only question left unanswered there: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter-devel/msg12531.html Piotr, could you answer there, please?

[Comment 9 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2010-11-11 08:47:42 UTC]

Resolving bug as NEEDINFO since there no feedback from Piotr.