Bug 106603 – New ebuild request: OSSIM

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Stefano 2005-09-19 14:35:39 UTC]

OSSIM (www.ossim.net) is an interesting open source package for handling
security informations on a network. Currently the only reliable way to install
it is through .deb packages on a Debian distro. 

Can we really tolerate that ? :p

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Stefano 2005-09-25 08:29:44 UTC]

A Debian install guide is here: http://www.ossim.net/docs/INSTALL.Debian.html

A first summary of problems to solve for ebuild-ing this thing:
- make install mixes up files (some are in /usr/share/ossim, some in
/usr/share/local
- pgpgacl do not correctly work on gentoo
- ntop and snort need to be patched for working with Ossim (sigh)
- Apache on Gentoo has some problem in handling the perl modules of OSSIM
- Documentation is badly missing in the original project itself.........

[Comment 2 Eric Brown 2005-12-27 12:57:40 UTC]

I'll take a stab at it if it's not too hard

[Comment 3 Stefano 2006-04-17 02:41:48 UTC]

It is still almost impossible to deploy ossim on Gentoo... as it is one of the most used packages for Security Information Management, it would be very important to work on this. It's beyond my ability though.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-09-23 14:01:51 UTC]

*** Bug 148846 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-10-04 09:38:32 UTC]

No progress here for one year, closing WONTFIX.

Feel free to reopen with an ebuild.

[Comment 6 i3laze 2007-04-03 06:49:23 UTC]

I've started making new 0.9.9rc4 ebuild branch for x86.
Work will be finished to the end of April.

Need some testers for arches other then x86, huh : )
(x86 are also welcome)

btw, here's complete 0.9.9rc3: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56914