ipfilter(4) needs maintainer

[Odhiambo Washington]

It's NOT possible, because someone has to handle the kernel hooks, which is
the contention.
Mark as deprecated, remove the HandBook section, but only for 10.x



On 14 April 2013 18:48, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Chris Rees wrote:
>
>  On 14 April 2013 01:41, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at felyko.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 2013/04/13 16:01?Scott Long <scott4long at yahoo.com> ??????:
>>>
>>>
>>>  Maybe something else, but whatever it is, it should be done.  If you
>>>> and Gleb don't want to do this, I will.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I already started writing a guide. See here for a very incomplete
>>> version:
>>>
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~**rpaulo/ipf-deprecation/**article.html<http://people.freebsd.org/~rpaulo/ipf-deprecation/article.html>
>>>
>>
>> If you're really serious about deprecating ipf, we absolutely have to
>> remove instructions for it from the Handbook as soon as possible;
>> every time a new user comes across instructions you're going to have
>> yet another annoyed party.
>>
>> http://www.bayofrum.net/~**crees/patches/remove-ipf.diff<http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/remove-ipf.diff>
>>
>
> This should probably be done like we did for CVS for ports.  Mark it as
> deprecated, then remove the Handbook section once the code is removed.
>
> Is it possible to move ipfilter into a port?
>
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