Hi, On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:01:01PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 11340 March 1977, Sebastian Harl wrote: > > > block 473435 by 358637 > > thanks > > Interesting, you just blocked this bug by one thats archived...
Yap, I realized that after getting the response from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - has been fixed by now. > >> Well, collectd misses the iptables plugin at least on amd64. > > > This plugin requires libiptc which is only available as a static > > library. As, per policy, libiptc has not been built with -fPIC, it > > cannot be linked into a shared object on amd64 (and a couple of other > > architectures). This can be solved by providing an additional package > > which includes PIC support. > > It doesn't appear to be available anymore at all. See #472655. > > I'd really appreciate to see such a package for libiptc. > > See [1] for more details about building packages with PIC support. > > I don't want to rebuilt stuff by hand, thats not why I use Debian :) That's not what I meant - these paragraphs were meant for Laurence. I guess I should have made that clear in the first place ;-) > I guess its time for someone else to provide such packages, as they have > been removed from iptables, or to include the needed code into collectd > or to get the plugin working in some other way. :() If Laurence cannot be persuaded to re-add libiptc to iptables-dev, I will either have it included in collectd upstream or the collectd Debian package - I don't really like either way though. Cheers, Sebastian -- Sebastian "tokkee" Harl +++ GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC +++ http://tokkee.org/ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
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