[Request] Uncomplicated Firewall

Question

Hello,
Ubuntu hardy introduces a new firewall ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall).
It's a tool for host-based iptables firewall configuration. This tool should provide an easy to use interface to the user, as well as support package integration and dynamic-detection of open ports.
It strikes me that this can make a good high level solution for configuring iptables on arch. It's very similar to the way network is set up with ethtool. What is your thoughts on this? I'm actually asking if this would be a solution that could be implemented to arch core, not to forget that it will be highly maintained, thus reduce the work for the arch team.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFirewall
Last edited by hardframed (2008-02-10 20:10:33)

Answer 1

LTSmash wrote:
I did update a little bit the UFW PKGBUILD since the other posted here doesn't works anymore:
# Contributor: LTSmash <[email protected]>
pkgname=ufw
pkgver=0.16.2
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Ubuntu's Uncomplicated Firewall"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
url="https://launchpad.net/ufw"
license=('GPL')
depends=('iptables>=1.3.3' 'python>=2.5')
source=(http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/ufw/ufw_${pkgver}.tar.gz)
md5sums=('833cc7452e1118f1fa37c3d065ddf66a')
build() {
cd ${startdir}/src/ufw-${pkgver} || return 1
python ./setup.py install --root=$startdir/pkg/ || return 1
#Docs
mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/share/doc/$pkgname
install -m644 -t $startdir/pkg/usr/share/doc/$pkgname/ README* TODO || return 1
Hum, I already noticed that this won't work.
The setup.py somehow makes the executable to look for itself in the selected installation root, so the code MUST be patched to work correctly with pacman.
I'm looking forward to know how they package ufw for Ubuntu without experiencing this problem...
NOTE:
The error is this:
[root@LTS-Arch ufw]# ufw status
ERROR: uid is 0 but '/home/ltsmash/PKGBUILDS/ufw/pkg/etc/default/ufw' is owned by 501
NOTE: I didn't execute ufw from /home/ltsmash/PKGBUILDS/ufw/pkg/etc/default/ufw
Last edited by LTSmash (2008-05-18 21:32:28)