Re: Upgrading IPFilter on 2.9

[Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>]

In some mail from Geoff Sweet, sie said:
> 
> I am running OBSD 2.9 and am trying to upgrade to IPFilter 3.4.25.  I am
> sure my problems here are because of my lack of experience with OpenBSD,
> buuut it appears that it is only intended for OBSD 3.0.  I tried the walk
> through's and some of the tutorials on the web, but they all always come
> back to this:
> 
> gate# patch < /home/geoff/ip_fil3.4.25/OpenBSD/3.0-sys-diffs
> Hmm...  Looks like a new-style context diff to me...
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |diff -cr sys.30/arch/alpha/alpha/conf.c sys/arch/alpha/alpha/conf.c
> |*** sys.30/arch/alpha/alpha/conf.c     Fri Sep 28 13:33:39 2001
> |--- sys/arch/alpha/alpha/conf.c        Fri Dec 28 12:42:32 2001
> --------------------------
> File to patch:
> 
> Unless I am mistaken... this isn't working right?  What is the work around
> for this?  There isn't a "2.9-sys-diffs" file to point at in the IPFilter
> directory.  Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

It is generally this simple.

gunzip -c ip_fil3.4.25.tar.gz | tar xf -
cd ip_fil3.4.25
BSD/kupgrade
make openbsd
make install-bsd
rebuild kernel
install new kernel.
reboot.

Darren