Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Nov 28 2007 12:25, Patrick McHardy wrote:
- I think we should move all manuals to libxt_*.man or perhaps
even *.man, would reduce Makefile LOC.
You mean for the ones where we have an IPv4 and IPv6 version, but
no xtables extension? I'm not sure they're all similar ...
I mean libipt_unclean.man -> libxt_unclean.man. The source file
libipt_unclean.c will persist. As unclean only matches libipt_%
the manpage will only land in iptables.8, not ip6tables.8.
Then whats the advantage? Similar to the kernel, I think we should
only use xt_ for things that actually support more than one
address family.
Well, just look at it:
for ext in $(1); do \
f="${srcdir}/libxt_$$ext.man"; \
if [ -f "$$f" ]; then \
echo ".SS $$ext"; \
cat "$$f"; \
continue; \
fi; \
f="${srcdir}/libipt_$$ext.man"; \
if [ -f "$$f" ]; then \
echo ".SS $$ext"; \
cat "$$f"; \
continue; \
fi; \
f="${srcdir}/libip6t_$$ext.man"; \
if [ -f "$$f" ]; then \
echo ".SS $$ext"; \
cat "$$f"; \
continue; \
fi; \
done >$@;
could be reduced to 1/3 of its size.
size isn't everything :)
BTW, libipq inside iptables seems to be totally unused, is it still needed?
Yes, people are still using it and the nfnetlink_queue compat library
is still nonfunctional.
but *iptables* itself does not use it, does it? in which case
libipq should probably move to its own tarball, that is what
I was proposing.
We could do that I guess, though I'm expecting a bunch of complaints
from people who are used to get it from the iptables source.
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