Well being the fwbuilder maintainer yes this is the correct behavior as fwbuilder itself doesn't have anything that depends on xauth... I also as a network administrator for a living, and I do use fwbuilder for my own internal firewall, don't recommend running it from the firewall itself anyway... I run it on an internal machine that does run X11 then upload the generated firewall script to the firewall via scp or sneaker-net...
Regards,
Jeremy
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 11:17:49PM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 08:22:29PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
> (...)
> > messages, and it mentioned that it could not find xauth. So I looked
> > up the package for xauth and that is xbase-clients, and sure enough
> > that had not been dragged in by the dependancy chain for fwbuilder.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> True enough, fwbuilder should not have it.
>
> > When I installed xbase-clients sure enough fwbuilder worked remotely
> > through ssh -X.
> >
> > Now I suspect that this is not a problem with fwbuilder's dependancies,
> > but I am not quite sure whose problem it is.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Yes:
> $ apt-cache show ssh |grep Suggest
> Suggests: ssh-askpass, xbase-clients, dpkg (>=1.8.3.1), dnsutils
>
> That's what happens when you rely too much on apt. Suggests are not
> included in the dependancy chain (of ssh), it's your job to do it. You
> wouldn't have run into this if you had used 'dselect' or some other apt/dpkg
> frontend (aptitude would?)
>
> Regards
>
> Javi
>
>
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