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Bug 1701924 - system-config-firewall fails to install due to missing dependencies
Summary: system-config-firewall fails to install due to missing dependencies
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-config-firewall
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Beveridge
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
: 1728185 1763141 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: F31FailsToInstall PY2FTBI
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-04-22 13:20 UTC by Miro Hrončok
Modified: 2019-10-20 22:31 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-06-29 00:24:56 UTC
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Description Miro Hrončok 2019-04-22 13:20:02 UTC 
$ mock -r fedora-rawhide-x86_64 install system-config-firewall
...
Error: 
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides python2-slip-dbus >= 0.2.7 needed by system-config-firewall-1.2.29-21.fc29.noarch


Please fix this or retire the package.
Comment 1 Miro Hrončok 2019-04-29 20:06:22 UTC 
A week has passed and this bug is still in the NEW state and the package does not install.

Please fix this or indicate that you are working ona  fix by setting the state to ASSIGNED.

After 3 such reminders, this package may be orphaned.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F31_Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal#Removing_non-installable_packages_from_the_distro

Thanks
Comment 2 Miro Hrončok 2019-05-06 14:15:11 UTC 
In preparation for the Python 2 EOL, we are removing all non-installable Python 2 packages:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F31_Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal#Removing_non-installable_packages_from_the_distro

This bug is still in the NEW state and the package does not install. Please indicate you are working on a fix by setting the state to ASSIGNED. When this bug is four weeks in the NEW state, the package may be orphaned.

Note that you don't have to actually fix this right now, setting the bug to ASSIGNED will just mark this as being worked on, so I'll know it is being taken care of. If this happens too quickly, feel free to reach to me any time for help (with specific problems).

(My previous comment might have come across a bit too aggressive. I'm sorry, that was not my intention.)

(If you know for sure this package shall be removed, consider doing it.)

Thank You!
Comment 3 Miro Hrončok 2019-05-13 07:41:02 UTC 
This bug is still in the NEW state and the package does not install. Please indicate you are working on a fix by setting the state to ASSIGNED. When this bug is four weeks in the NEW state, the package may be orphaned.
Comment 4 Martí­n Marqués 2019-06-07 14:21:01 UTC 
Wow, this is unbelievable! This ticket, with a real issue, hasn't been touched for over 2 months already.

Who is responsible for the system-config-firewall package?
Comment 5 Martí­n Marqués 2019-06-07 14:23:23 UTC 
BTW @Miro why did you set version to `rawhide` if this is actually happening on FC30?
Comment 6 Miro Hrončok 2019-06-07 14:30:05 UTC 
> Who is responsible for the system-config-firewall package?

Nobody, it has been orphaned. Or it should have been.

> BTW @Miro why did you set version to `rawhide` if this is actually happening on FC30?

because rawhide is where I figured this out.
Comment 7 Miro Hrončok 2019-06-07 14:30:58 UTC 
This bug is still in the NEW state and the package does not install. Please indicate you are working on a fix by setting the state to ASSIGNED. When this bug is four weeks in the NEW state, the package may be orphaned.
Comment 8 Eric Garver 2019-06-07 15:14:25 UTC 
(In reply to Miro Hrončok from comment #6)
> > Who is responsible for the system-config-firewall package?
> 
> Nobody, it has been orphaned. Or it should have been.

It was orphaned on April 29, but seems to have been picked up by someone else.

It is unmaintained and abandoned upstream. All the URLs to upstream are dead.
Comment 9 Eric Garver 2019-06-07 15:15:32 UTC 
Readding needinfo I mistakenly removed.
Comment 10 David Beveridge 2019-06-17 05:57:12 UTC 
Update:
I installed a copy of Fedora 30 for testing with this package.
I managed to patch the spec file and some source files to get it to build. (Shebangs must now point to /usr/bin/python2)
It installs OK, but I cannot test it.
To use system-config-firewall, you must first remove firewalld.
When I tried to remove firewalld, it wants to also remove "kernel".
Clearly this is a problem.
Comment 11 Miro Hrončok 2019-06-17 07:12:42 UTC 
You've taken the package for EPEL, correct?

Maybe it's time to drop it from Fedora?
Comment 12 David Beveridge 2019-06-22 03:34:09 UTC 
This bug is for the graphical user interface GUI.
But, there are also problems with the TUI.
It uses newt, which it now being built against python3 instead of python2.
The TUI is part of a larger echo system which includes setuptool, system-config-network-tui & authconfig-tui.
system-config-network-tui has been replaced by nmtui,
authconfig replaced by authselect
So right now it appears like even though setuptool itself installs, there is nothing left for it.

The one thing that still remains that does work on RHEL8 is the command line utility lokkit. (Provided by system-config-firewall-base)
lokkit has largely been replaced by firewalld-cmd

I'm still not sure how to do port-forwarding with firewalld in ansible and that's the primary I've been using lokkit for some time now (still today on EL7) 

Now I am looking at EL8 and I don't think that lokkit has a place there.

Therefore I don't see any reason why this package should not be dropped completely.
If anyone wants to know how to run lokkit on EL8 they can contact me directly.
Comment 13 Miro Hrončok 2019-06-24 22:17:55 UTC 
> Therefore I don't see any reason why this package should not be dropped completely.

Please retire it then.
Comment 14 David Beveridge 2019-06-29 00:24:56 UTC 
This package has been retired
Comment 15 David Beveridge 2019-07-10 11:13:01 UTC 
*** Bug 1728185 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 David Beveridge 2019-10-20 22:31:29 UTC 
*** Bug 1763141 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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