I want to try out fail2ban and notice that both, kbs-CentOS-Testing and ATrpms, have shorewall as a dependency. I do not use shorewall and have never used it. I have my own iptables/firewall script and am happy with it. Can I install shorewall without any ill effects to my current sue of iptables or would I need to use shorewall for firewalling from that point on? (It may be a good product, but I really don't want to learn yet another rule syntax.)
Kai
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 13:45:31 Kai Schaetzl wrote:
I want to try out fail2ban and notice that both, kbs-CentOS-Testing and ATrpms, have shorewall as a dependency. I do not use shorewall and have never used it. I have my own iptables/firewall script and am happy with it. Can I install shorewall without any ill effects to my current sue of iptables or would I need to use shorewall for firewalling from that point on? (It may be a good product, but I really don't want to learn yet another rule syntax.)
Kai
I installed fail2ban from rpmforge and it has no dependencies. I use it with the default CentOS firewall
fail2ban-0.8.2-2.el5.rf.noarch.rpm
Tony
Tony Molloy wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:53:49 +0100:
I installed fail2ban from rpmforge and it has no dependencies.
Ah, thanks, I thought I had installed an rpm earlier that didn't have dependencies, but I couldn't find the machine I did it on. I disabled the kbs repo and I'm now getting it. yum wanted to install the older i386 rpm first, though. Does the i386 override noarch, although the version is newer?
Kai
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 14:31:11 Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Tony Molloy wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:53:49 +0100:
I installed fail2ban from rpmforge and it has no dependencies.
Ah, thanks, I thought I had installed an rpm earlier that didn't have dependencies, but I couldn't find the machine I did it on. I disabled the kbs repo and I'm now getting it. yum wanted to install the older i386 rpm first, though. Does the i386 override noarch, although the version is newer?
Kai
I installed on some x86_64 systems but you can specify noarch on the install line. I don't know the precedence of i386 and noarch.
Tony
Tony Molloy wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:53:05 +0100:
you can specify noarch on the install line.
that's what I did, I was just curious.
Kai
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