| Message ID | 7fab503e-2634-b878-d844-e322a56893b1@gmail.com |
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| State | Accepted |
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| Series | Add netfilter tools and libraries | expand |
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fesoj000 schreef op za 19-03-2022 om 01:47 [+0100]: > + (description "libnetfilter_cthelper is the userspace library that provides > +the programming interface to the user-space helper infrastructure available > +since Linux kernel 3.6. I think that nowadays >3.6 can be assumed, especially since the Guix daemon uses the namespacing features which requires a recentish kernel, so this doesn't need to be mentioned I think?
fesoj000 schreef op za 19-03-2022 om 01:47 [+0100]:
> + (synopsis "Library for kernel user-space helper infrastructure.")
What kernel user-space infrastructure, precisely? Taken to the
extreme, can I use this library to turn off a CPU?
Greetings,
Maxime.
fesoj000 schreef op za 19-03-2022 om 01:47 [+0100]:
> + (description "libnetfilter_cthelper is the userspace library [...]
It's certainly _a_ library for doing certain stuff, but someone can
definitely write another library for doing that as well, so I wouldn't
use ‘the’ here.
fesoj000 schreef op za 19-03-2022 om 01:47 [+0100]:
> This library is used by conntrack-tools.")
This information is already available with "guix show conntrack-tools".
fesoj000 schreef op za 19-03-2022 om 01:47 [+0100]: > With this library, you register, configure, enable and > +disable user-space helpers What kind of helpers?
diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm index 6dbec31064..8ddd495441 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm @@ -7298,6 +7298,31 @@ (define-public libnetfilter-cttimeout "libnetfilter_cttimeout/index.html")) (license license:gpl2))) +(define-public libnetfilter-cthelper + (package + (name "libnetfilter_cthelper") + (version "1.0.0") + (source + (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append "https://netfilter.org/projects/" + "libnetfilter_cthelper/files/" + "libnetfilter_cthelper-" + version ".tar.bz2")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "0gfgzkc1fjniqwk4jxds72c0lcgfhq2591hrvjrvd9nrqiqqwq87")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (native-inputs (list libmnl pkg-config)) + (synopsis "Library for kernel user-space helper infrastructure.") + (description "libnetfilter_cthelper is the userspace library that provides +the programming interface to the user-space helper infrastructure available +since Linux kernel 3.6. With this library, you register, configure, enable and +disable user-space helpers. This library is used by conntrack-tools.") + (home-page (string-append "https://netfilter.org/projects/" + "libnetfilter_cthelper/index.html")) + (license license:gpl2))) + (define-public proot (package (name "proot")