Package release compatibility (iptables for instance)

Thomas Woerner twoerner at redhat.com
Thu Feb 12 13:57:01 UTC 2004


IPTABLES_MODULES_UNLOAD is an option for the iptables startup-script. Please 
have a look at /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config. There are settings for helper 
modules and start, restart and stop related options.


Thiers Botelho wrote:
> This one might be slightly OT, but any answers would be highly educational 
> for noobies like me (hope many others too).
> 
> I just received, from  fedora-announce, info on updated  iptables 1.2.9-1.0. That'd be
> 
>  
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-February/msg00004.html
> 
> It happens that the announcement mentions a new config option (IPTABLES_MODULES_UNLOAD), so I went to iptables.org in order to learn some more about it.
> 
> I couldn't find anything there on the topic ( 
> http://iptables.org/files/changes-iptables-1.2.9.txt ) ; then it downed on 
> me that the Fedora update is 1.2.9-1.0 - this trailing _1.0_ suffix is nowhere to be found on iptables.org (I might as well have 
> missed something there).
> 
> But the whole point I'd like to understand is more general and not 
> iptables-specific at all . 
> 
> Although it is stated that FC is a _community effort_ , all updates are 
> published by _someone at redhat.com_ . 
> 
> Then I ask - when RH updates a package in FC, might it make some 
> ADDITIONAL change to the original package ? I'm asking this due to the _1.0_ and to the new switch which is not mentioned on the original changelog.
> 
> And BTW (might be relevant for any repliers) - I'm not a Linux user yet. 
> Just have made a dual-boot install at work but had no time to get my hands 
> dirty, so for the moment I'm learning what I can from mailing lists.
> 
> Thnx
> 
> Thiers
> 
> 

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