# ChangeLog for net-firewall/iptables # Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-firewall/iptables/ChangeLog,v 1.107 2006/07/28 21:06:59 azarah Exp $ 28 Jul 2006; Martin Schlemmer iptables-1.3.5-r4.ebuild: Fix USE=extensions to actually build the extra extensions. *iptables-1.3.5-r4 (28 Jul 2006) 28 Jul 2006; Martin Schlemmer +iptables-1.3.5-r4.ebuild: Add extensions USE flag back for misc patch-o-matic extensions. Bump l7filter patch to 2.3. *iptables-1.3.5-r3 (09 Jul 2006) 09 Jul 2006; Daniel Black +files/1.3.5-files/iptables-1.3.5-errno.patch, +iptables-1.3.5-r3.ebuild: separated extensions patch as promised to vapier/hansmi/wolf31o2(?). Added upstream patch for errnum (bug #139726) thanks to Rance Hall and upstream dev Daniel 12 Jun 2006; Chris Gianelloni iptables-1.3.5-r1.ebuild: Stable on x86 wrt bug #135380. 11 Jun 2006; Simon Stelling iptables-1.3.5-r1.ebuild: stable on amd64 10 Jun 2006; iptables-1.3.5-r1.ebuild: Stable on ppc; bug #135380 09 Jun 2006; Guy Martin iptables-1.3.5-r1.ebuild: Stable on hppa. 08 Jun 2006; Jason Wever iptables-1.3.5-r1.ebuild: Stable on SPARC wrt bug #135380. 08 Jun 2006; Thomas Cort iptables-1.3.5-r1.ebuild: Stable on alpha wrt Bug #135380. 08 Jun 2006; Markus Rothe iptables-1.3.5-r1.ebuild: Stable on ppc64; bug #135380 *iptables-1.3.5-r2 (04 Jun 2006) 04 Jun 2006; Daniel Black iptables-1.3.5-r2.ebuild: update l7-filter patch version *iptables-1.3.5-r1 (02 May 2006) 02 May 2006; Daniel Black +iptables-1.3.5-r1.ebuild: layer7 filtering patch version bump. *iptables-1.3.5 (04 Feb 2006) 04 Feb 2006; Mike Frysinger +iptables-1.3.5.ebuild: Version bump #121392 by Michail Baikov. 06 Jan 2006; Daniel Black iptables-1.3.4.ebuild: changing l7 filter from 2.0_beta to 2.0 - only change in the iptables patch was an error message change 18 Dec 2005; Markus Rothe iptables-1.3.4.ebuild: Stable on ppc64 09 Dec 2005; Bryan Østergaard iptables-1.3.4.ebuild: Stable on amd64. 18 Nov 2005; Michael Hanselmann iptables-1.3.4.ebuild: Stable on hppa, ppc. 14 Nov 2005; Gustavo Zacarias iptables-1.3.4.ebuild: Stable on sparc 13 Nov 2005; Mark Loeser iptables-1.3.4.ebuild: Stable on x86; bug #112351 *iptables-1.3.4 (05 Nov 2005) 05 Nov 2005; Mike Frysinger +iptables-1.3.4.ebuild: Version bump to fix #110758 by Brian Kroth. 15 Oct 2005; Daniel Black -files/1.2.7a-files/01_all_grsecurity.patch.bz2, -files/1.2.7a-files/02_all_imq.patch.bz2, -files/1.2.7a-files/03_all_mac_fix.patch.bz2, -files/1.2.7a-files/04_all_no_optimize_fix.patch.bz2, -files/1.2.9-files/01_all_grsecurity.patch.bz2, -files/1.2.9-files/02_all_imq.patch.bz2, -files/1.2.9-files/03_hppa_gentoo.patch.bz2, -files/1.2.9-files/04_all_install_ipv6_apps.patch.bz2, -files/1.2.9-files/05_all_install_all_dev_files.patch.bz2, -files/1.2.9-files/06_all_l7.patch.bz2, -files/1.2.9-files/sparc64_limit_fix.patch.bz2, -files/ip6tables.confd, -files/iptables-1.2.7a-hppa.diff, -files/sparc64_limit_fix.patch.bz2, -files/ip6tables.init, -files/iptables-1.2.9-hppa.patch.bz2, -files/iptables.confd, -files/iptables.init, -iptables-1.2.7a-r3.ebuild, -iptables-1.2.9.ebuild, -iptables-1.2.9-r1.ebuild, -iptables-1.2.9-r4.ebuild, -iptables-1.3.1-r4.ebuild, -iptables-1.3.3.ebuild: cleanout of old version and patches *iptables-1.3.3-r2 (25 Sep 2005) 25 Sep 2005; Daniel Black iptables-1.3.3-r2.ebuild: updated to use l7-filter-2.0-beta *iptables-1.3.3-r1 (17 Sep 2005) 17 Sep 2005; Daniel Black +iptables-1.3.3-r1.ebuild: updated to use l7-filter-1.5 - bug #106009 15 Sep 2005; Aron Griffis iptables-1.3.2.ebuild: Mark 1.3.2 stable on alpha 03 Sep 2005; Markus Rothe iptables-1.3.2.ebuild: Stable on ppc64 02 Sep 2005; Michael Hanselmann iptables-1.3.2.ebuild: Stable on ppc. 18 Aug 2005; Gustavo Zacarias iptables-1.3.2.ebuild: Stable on sparc *iptables-1.3.3 (16 Aug 2005) 16 Aug 2005; Robin H. Johnson +iptables-1.3.3.ebuild: Bug #102682, version bump. 08 Aug 2005; Aaron Walker iptables-1.3.1-r4.ebuild, iptables-1.3.2.ebuild: Re-added ~mips for bug 91285. *iptables-1.3.2 (12 Jul 2005) 12 Jul 2005; Mike Frysinger +files/ip6tables-1.3.2.confd, +files/iptables-1.3.2.confd, +files/iptables-1.3.2.init, +iptables-1.3.2.ebuild: Version bump #98641 by Lars (Polynomial-C). Unified the iptables/ip6tables init.d scripts. Added a new 'panic' option to init.d #72033 by Colin Kingsley. Warn about issues upgrading from 1.2.x to 1.3.x #92535 by Volkov Peter. *iptables-1.3.1-r4 (05 May 2005) 05 May 2005; Mike Frysinger files/iptables-1.2.9-r1.init, files/iptables.init, metadata.xml, -iptables-1.3.1-r3.ebuild, +iptables-1.3.1-r4.ebuild: Make sure /var/lib/iptables/rules-saves is only read/writable by root #91468 by eromang. 03 May 2005; Stephanie Lockwood-Childs iptables-1.3.1-r3.ebuild: mark ~ppc wrt #91285 03 May 2005; Herbie Hopkins iptables-1.3.1-r3.ebuild: Multilib fixes. 03 May 2005; Omkhar Arasaratnam iptables-1.3.1-r3.ebuild: Keyworded ~ppc64 wrt #91285 03 May 2005; Jan Brinkmann iptables-1.3.1-r3.ebuild: (re-)added ~amd64 to KEYWORDS wrt #91285 03 May 2005; Gustavo Zacarias iptables-1.3.1-r3.ebuild: Keyworded ~sparc wrt #91285 *iptables-1.3.1-r3 (03 May 2005) 03 May 2005; Robin H. Johnson : iptables-1.3.1-r2.ebuild, +iptables-1.3.1-r3.ebuild Clean up 1.3.1 ebuilds, and forcable mark as KEYWORDS=~x86 ONLY, as I want arches to test it first. *iptables-1.3.1-r2 (21 Apr 2005) 21 Apr 2005; Daniel Black -iptables-1.3.1.ebuild, -iptables-1.3.1-r1.ebuild, +iptables-1.3.1-r2.ebuild: As per bug #89500 removed old iptables-1.3* due to memory leak in the l7 filter section. Revision bump includes l7 filter 1.2. 28 Mar 2005; Jeremy Huddleston iptables-1.2.11-r3.ebuild, iptables-1.3.1-r1.ebuild: Use proper toolchain compiler. 28 Mar 2005; Daniel Black iptables-1.3.1-r1.ebuild, iptables-1.3.1.ebuild: added conditional unpack on l7-filter thanks to Marcelo Góes (vanquirius) *iptables-1.3.1-r1 (23 Mar 2005) 23 Mar 2005; Daniel Black +iptables-1.3.1-r1.ebuild: revision bump to support l7-filter-1.1. Doco fixes included *iptables-1.3.1 (09 Mar 2005) 09 Mar 2005; Robin H. Johnson +files/1.3.1-files/grsecurity-1.2.8-iptables.patch-1.3.1.bz2, +files/1.3.1-files/install_all_dev_files.patch-1.3.1.bz2, +files/1.3.1-files/install_ipv6_apps.patch.bz2, +files/1.3.1-files/iptables-1.3.1-compilefix.patch, +iptables-1.3.1.ebuild: Bug #80556, initial work, lots of changes here. This is hardmasked for testing still. It didn't compile against my mm-sources kernel, but does compile against a stock kernel. 29 Dec 2004; Ciaran McCreesh : Change encoding to UTF-8 for GLEP 31 compliance 09 Nov 2004; Aron Griffis iptables-1.2.11-r3.ebuild: stable on ia64 08 Nov 2004; Markus Rothe iptables-1.2.11-r3.ebuild: Stable on ppc64; bug #70240 08 Nov 2004; Simon Stelling iptables-1.2.11-r3.ebuild: stable for security reasons (bug #70240) 08 Nov 2004; Bryan Østergaard iptables-1.2.11-r3.ebuild: Stable on alpha, bug 70240. 08 Nov 2004; iptables-1.2.11-r3.ebuild: stable on ppc gsla: 70240 07 Nov 2004; Olivier Crete iptables-1.2.11-r3.ebuild: Stable on x86 per security bug #70240 07 Nov 2004; Jason Wever iptables-1.2.11-r3.ebuild: Stable on sparc wrt security bug #70240. 07 Nov 2004; Joshua Kinard iptables-1.2.11-r3.ebuild: Marked stable on mips. 07 Nov 2004; Joshua Kinard iptables-1.2.11-r2.ebuild: Marked stable on mips. *iptables-1.2.11-r3 (06 Nov 2004) 06 Nov 2004; +files/1.2.11-files/CAN-2004-0986.patch, +iptables-1.2.11-r3.ebuild: security bump. Exception handling error. bug 70240 10 Sep 2004; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.11-r2.ebuild, files/1.2.11-files/round-robin.patch: Added round-robin patch, closing #60979. 05 Sep 2004; Guy Martin -files/1.2.11-files/hppa.patch.bz2, iptables-1.2.11-r2.ebuild: Stable on hppa. Removed no more needed hppa patch. 29 Aug 2004; Tom Gall iptables-1.2.11-r2.ebuild: stable on ppc64, bug #60780 22 Aug 2004; Seemant Kulleen iptables-1.2.11-r2.ebuild, iptables-1.2.9-r1.ebuild, iptables-1.2.9-r4.ebuild, iptables-1.2.9.ebuild: fix spelling error. Thanks to: Kurt McKee in bug #61325 22 Aug 2004; Bryan Østergaard iptables-1.2.11-r2.ebuild: Stable on alpha. 20 Aug 2004; Gustavo Zacarias iptables-1.2.11-r2.ebuild: Stable on sparc 18 Aug 2004; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.11-r2.ebuild, files/ip6tables-1.2.9-r1.confd, files/ip6tables-1.2.9-r1.init, files/iptables-1.2.9-r1.confd, files/iptables-1.2.9-r1.init: Enable saving state when stopping service, closing #60680. Unmasking on x86 and amd64. 10 Jul 2004; Daniel Ahlberg files/ip6tables.init: Fix typo in init file, closing #56537. 05 Jul 2004; Michal Januszewski iptables-1.2.11-r2.ebuild: Fixed problems with iptables installing into /usr/local/sbin/. 04 Jul 2004; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.11-r2.ebuild: + Fix installation path, initscript and config script. Closing #55978. + Fix dependencies. Closing #55605 04 Jul 2004; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.9-r4.ebuild: + Fix dependencies. Closing #55605 03 Jul 2004; Seemant Kulleen iptables-1.2.11-r2.ebuild: sed statement fix, thanks to x1bncwn in #gentoo *iptables-1.2.9-r4 (03 Jul 2004) *iptables-1.2.11-r2 (03 Jul 2004) 03 Jul 2004; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.11-r1.ebuild, iptables-1.2.9-r3.ebuild: For some reason iptables may decide to compile in the src_install section too, make sure it compiles against the correct KERNEL_DIR. Closing #55489. 02 Jul 2004; Jeremy Huddleston iptables-1.2.11-r1.ebuild, iptables-1.2.7a-r3.ebuild, iptables-1.2.9-r1.ebuild, iptables-1.2.9-r3.ebuild, iptables-1.2.9.ebuild: || die's to make install to avoid problems like we see in bug #55489. 02 Jul 2004; Lars Weiler iptables-1.2.9-r3.ebuild: Stable on ppc as iptables-1.2.7a-r3 does not compile any more. 28 Jun 2004; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.11.ebuild, iptables-1.2.9-r3.ebuild: Revision bump these so they propagate correctly. *iptables-1.2.11-r1 (28 Jun 2004) 28 Jun 2004; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.11.ebuild: Version bump and updated IMQ and l7 patches. Closing #54067 and #55308. *iptables-1.2.9-r3 (28 Jun 2004) 28 Jun 2004; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.9-r3.ebuild: New revision with a new local use flag that toggles the applying of 3rd party patches and building against linux sources. Without the new use flag no 3rd party extensions patches will be applied and iptables will be built against linux-headers. Be aware that iptables doesn't always build against the newest kernels and manual patching may be required. Closing #54440 28 Jun 2004; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.7a-r3.ebuild, iptables-1.2.9-r1.ebuild, iptables-1.2.9.ebuild: Step back to an earlier date to clean up the mess, change "Gentoo Technologies Inc" to "Gentoo Foundation". 09 Jun 2004; Aron Griffis iptables-1.2.7a-r3.ebuild, iptables-1.2.9-r1.ebuild, iptables-1.2.9.ebuild: Fix use invocation and replace unnecessary subshell with if..then..fi 07 Jun 2004; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.9-r1.ebuild: + Only run check_KV if /usr/src/liunx is a symlink or a directory, possible fix for #46817. + Handle extensionpatches that was added for 1.2.9-r1. Closing #51418. 10 May 2004; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.9-r1.ebuild: CFLAGS must have -O flag, closing #44204 *iptables-1.2.9-r1 (25 Apr 2004) 25 Apr 2004; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.9-r1.ebuild: + Depend on virtual/linux-sources. + Add static build support. + Install all headers, patch contributed by Thomas Jacob . + l7-filter support, closing #39761. + Made initscript run before net, closing #27087. + Removed ipforwarding from initscripts as it doesn't belong here and added einfo about it. + Removed some old ebuilds. 21 Apr 2004; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.7a-r3.ebuild, iptables-1.2.7a-r4.ebuild, iptables-1.2.8.ebuild: Added IUSE= 09 Mar 2004; iptables-1.2.9.ebuild: stable on alpha and ia64 09 Mar 2004; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.9.ebuild: + Added einfo about kernel 2.4.21, closing #25919. + Install ip6tables-save and ip6tables-restore, closing #39833. + Really enable IPv6, closing #41624. 28 Jan 2004; iptables-1.2.9.ebuild: stable on hppa and sparc 23 Jan 2004; Daniel Ahlberg files/iptables.init, files/ip6tables.init, iptables-1.2.9.ebuild: Add reload support to initscript. Closing #21801. Added note about saving your rules if upgrading. Closing #35135. Unmasked, closing #34910. 21 Nov 2003; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.9.ebuild : Replae -O0 with -O2, same as the the lack of -O flag problem. Closing #33899. *iptables-1.2.9 (04 Nov 2003) 04 Nov 2003; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.9.ebuild : Version bump. *iptables-1.2.8-r2 (15 Oct 2003) 15 Oct 2003; John Mylchreest ; iptables-1.2.8-r2.ebuild: fixes bug #22223 21 Sep 2003; Matthew Rickard iptables-1.2.8-r1.ebuild: "-fstack-protector" breaks "iptables -p icmp". We will filter this flag until this is fixed properly. 19 Sep 2003; Daniel Ahlberg files/ip6tables.init: Closing #29087. 06 May 2003; Christian Birchinger iptables-1.2.8-r1.ebuild: Added stable sparc keyword 05 May 2003; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.8-r1.ebuild : Unmasked on x86. *iptables-1.2.8-r1 (04 May 2003) 02 Jul 2003; Guy Martin files/1.2.8-files/03_hppa_gentoo.patch.bz2, iptables-1.2.8-r1.ebuild : Bzipped 03_hppa_gentoo.patch.bz2 which was not. Marked stable for hppa. 04 May 2003; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.8-r1.ebuild, files/iptables.init files/iptables.confd, files/ip6tables.init files/ip6tables.confd : Fixed ipv6 support. Closes #17155. 04 May 2003; Daniel Ahlberg files/1.2.8-files/03_hppa_gentoo.patch.bz2 : doh! uncompressed patch. 04 May 2003; Daniel Ahlberg files/iptables.init : Removed auto saving of rules when stopping iptables. Closing #15333 and #13673. 02 May 2003; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.8.ebuild : Force -O2 if no -O flag is set. Remove 03_all_no_optimize_fix.patch.bz2. 19 Apr 2003; Daniel Ahlberg : Removed 03_all_mac_fix.patch.bz2 becuse it was fixed in 1.2.8. *iptables-1.2.8 (19 Apr 2003) 19 Apr 2003; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.8.ebuild : Version bump. *iptables-1.2.7a-r4 (10 Apr 2003) 19 apr 2003; Preston A. Elder iptables-1.2.7a-r4.ebuild : Enabled -r4 for x86 10 apr 2003; Preston A. Elder iptables-1.2.7a-r4.ebuild : Added compilation of development tools *iptables-1.2.7a-r3 (11 Mar 2003) 15 Mar 2003; Jason Wever files/sparc64_limit_fix.patch.bz2: Added sparc64_limit_fix.patch.bz2 back into the files directory as it got lost in the moving of iptables from sys-apps to net-firewall. 15 Mar 2003; Jan Seidel : Added mips to KEYWORDS 11 Mar 2003; Martin Holzer iptables-1.2.7a-r3.ebuild, files/grsecurity-1.2.7a-iptables.patch, files/iptables-1.2.6a-imq.diff-3, files/iptables-1.2.7a-gentoo.diff, files/iptables-1.2.7a-hppa.diff, files/iptables-1.2.7a-imq.diff-3, files/iptables.confd, files/iptables.init, files/1.2.7a-files/01_all_grsecurity.patch.bz2, files/1.2.7a-files/02_all_imq.patch.bz2, files/1.2.7a-files/03_all_mac_fix.patch.bz2, files/1.2.7a-files/04_all_no_optimize_fix.patch.bz2: moved from sys-apps/iptables to net-firewall/iptables 21 Feb 2003; Zach Welch iptables-1.2.7a-r3.ebuild : Added arm keyword 17 Feb 2003; Guy Martin iptables-1.2.7a-r3.ebuild : Added patch and keyword for hppa. *iptables-1.2.7a-r3 (09 Jan 2003) 11 Mar 2003; Zach Welch iptables-1.2.7a-r3.ebuild: change sys-kernel/linux-headers to new virtual/os-headers 09 Feb 2003; Seemant Kulleen iptables-1.2.7a-r3.ebuild : Sed expression delimiter from / to :, closing bug #15006 by Blu3 06 Feb 2003; Mark Guertin iptables-1.2.7a-r3.ebuild : Added ppc keyword 10 Jan 2003; Joshua Brindle iptables-1.2.7a-r3.ebuild : unmasked for x86, sparc, alpha re: bug #13466 fixed sed string re: bug #13644 09 Jan 2003; Christian Birchinger : Added new revsion with sparc64 limit rule fixes. 09 Jan 2003; Daniel Ahlberg files/iptables.init : Readded save() function, closes #7752. 08 Jan 2003; Daniel Ahlberg files/iptables.init : Forgot to remove save() function from initscript. 08 Jan 2003; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.7a-r2.ebuild : Closes #13466. 07 Jan 2003; Daniel Ahlberg : Cleaned out old files. *iptables-1.2.7a-r2 (07 Jan 2003) 07 Jan 2003; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.7a-r2.ebuild, files/iptables.init, files/iptables.confd : Closes #13366, #13144 and #10424. Added new patching method and made installation prettier. *iptables-1.2.7a-r1 (10 Dec 2002) 10 Dec 2002; Joshua Beindle iptables-1.2.7a-r1.ebuild : Added grsecurity stealth module patch 06 Dec 2002; Rodney Rees : changed sparc ~sparc keywords *iptables-1.2.7a (27 Aug 2002) 20 Nov 2002; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.7a.ebuild : Added patch for iptables-restore. Contributed by fridtjof@fbunet.de in #10736. 25 Sep 2002; Daniel Ahlberg files/iptables-1.2.7a-imq.diff-3 : Closes #8046. 23 Sep 2002; Jack Morgan iptables-1.2.7a.ebuild : Added sparc/sparc64 keywords 09 Sep 2002; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.7a.ebuild : Cleaned up configurationfiles and ebuild, added blocke's changes to -r1 into this version. 08 Sep 2002; Bruce A. Locke iptables-1.2.6a-r3.ebuild, iptables-1.2.7a-r2, files/iptables.confd-2, files/iptables.init-2 Fix #2355. Forwarding is disabled on script stop and only turned on during script start if conf.d/iptables settings are enabled. 01 Sep 2002; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.7a.ebuild : Added better handling of stopping iptables as described in #6949. Suggested and submitted by Frederic Jolliton . 30 Aug 2002; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.7a.ebuild : Added the IMQ patch to 1.2.7a. 27 Aug 2002; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.7a.ebuild : New upstream version to fix the bugs introduced in 1.2.7. *iptables-1.2.6a-r3 08 Sep 2002; Bruce A. Locke iptables-1.2.6a-r3.ebuild, iptables-1.2.7a-r2, files/iptables.confd-2, files/iptables.init-2 Fix #2335. Forwarding is disabled on script stop and only turned on during script start if conf.d/iptables settings are enabled. *iptables-1.2.6a-r2 (29 Aug 2002) 29 Aug 2002; Daniel Robbins new rev of iptables-1.2.6a adding support for IMQ (intermediate queueing device.) See http://luxik.cdi.cz/~patrick/imq/ for more information. *iptables-1.2.7.ebuild (17 Aug 2002) 17 Aug 2002; Daniel Ahlberg iptables-1.2.7.ebuild : Version bump. Christian Parpart brought this to our attention. *iptables-1.2.6a-r1.ebuild (14 July 2002) 14 Jul 2002; phoen][x iptables-1.2.6a.ebuild : Added KEYWORDS. 14 Jul 2002; phoen][x iptables-1.2.6a-r1.ebuild : Added KEYWORDS. *iptables-1.2.4-r1.ebuild (14 July 2002) 14 Jul 2002; phoen][x iptables-1.2.4-r1.ebuild : Added KEYWORDS, SLOT. *iptables-1.2.6a (13 Apr 2002) 13 Apr 2002; Seemant Kulleen iptables-1.2.6a.ebuild : gaarde@yahoo.com (Paul Belt) in bug #1670 submitted the update. *iptables-1.2.5-r1 (20 Mar 2002) 14 Jul 2002; phoen][x iptables-1.2.5.ebuild : Added KEYWORDS, SLOT. 14 Jul 2002; phoen][x iptables-1.2.5-r1.ebuild : Added KEYWORDS. 20 Mar 2002; Daniel Robbins : iptables *requires* kernel sources to compile. Before, we got away without them since we had a /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h. Now we don't, and this means that we need a source tree handy. Sad but true, and apparently the right thing to do. *iptables-1.2.5 (1 Feb 2002) 1 Feb 2002; G.Bevin ChangeLog : Added initial ChangeLog which should be updated whenever the package is updated in any way. This changelog is targetted to users. This means that the comments should well explained and written in clean English. The details about writing correct changelogs are explained in the skel.ChangeLog file which you can find in the root directory of the portage repository.