On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 06:50:21PM +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > It is fine by me. It is a trivial thing to add as the extension is not > yet frozen. yup. Please submit your changes against pom-ng (and patch-o-matic if you want, but as of now I don't think we'll see another pom-old release). > > Last, but not least: We'd need an etry for the iptables(8) manpage. > > Already there from the beginning, but lost in p-o-m due to the lack of a > clear structure on how manpage additions should be maintained for not yet > official extensions. (the help is copy-paste from the manpage output) > > Should I also write a more module like help text for these modules? the 'help' file in patch-o-matic-ng/CONNMARK/ is fine. > Btw, any plans on how iptables manpage snippets for extra/not yet > submitted matches/targets should be maintained? well, we could do some semi-automated mechanism, like splitting it up in one file per extension, and then concatenate the whole manpage from those snippets depending on PF_EXT_LIBS / PF6_EXT_LIBS during the iptables userspace make process. If somebody wants to take that job, I'd be more than happy. As for pkttables, the design includes automatic manpage generation from the helptexts (included in libpktt_FOO.so). But that's yet-to-do. > The requested changes has been done but is not yet tested. Testing should > be finished tomorrow whenI will submit the changes. great. I'm again on the road (LWE), so expect some delays. > Regards > Henrik -- - Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> http://www.netfilter.org/ ============================================================================ "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie
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