firestarter latest version broken?

[Richard England]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 19:04 -0700, Richard England wrote:
>   
>> On my FC5 (32 bit) installation, I used yumex to install  Firestarter v 
>> 1.0.3 from the extras repo and got the latest version:
>>
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/5/i386/firestarter-1.0.3-11.fc5.i386.rpm
>>
>> However, I was getting an error saying:
>>
>>
>> "A proper configuration for Firestarter was not found. If you are
>> running Firestarter from the directory you built it in, run 'make
>> install-data-local' to install a configuration, or simply 'make
>> install' to install the whole program.
>> Firestarter will now close."
>>
>>
>> Since Google told me that this was an issue going from 0.9.x versions to 
>> 1.0.x versions and a fix was to remove the configuration files, I tried 
>> that but had no luck. I tried more searches but could find nothing 
>> regarding this problem with FC5.  I finally went to look at the 
>> repository to see if I could grab an older version. I found the 
>> following, which I installed, (couldn't get any worse, I figured).
>>
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/5/i386/firestarter-1.0.3-10.fc5.i386.rpm
>>
>> This older version works. 
>>
>> Interesting is the fact that yumex does not now show an update being 
>> available, now, as I would have expected, since I believe there was 
>> something like a month between the releases.
>>
>> Has anyone else encountered this and where should I report it?  I assume 
>> bugzilla but is there a category for extras?  (I'm a novice at bugzilla 
>> in almost all aspects)
>>
>> Thanks for any input.
>>     
>
> Yes - file a bug report in bugzilla.
> I maintain firestarter in extras, and 1.0.3-11.fc5 works just swell for
> me. I *just* tested it on a virgin install (a box w/o previous
> firestarter installed) and it "works for me".
>
> Did you previously have a 0.9x version of firestarter?
> If you yum update now (from command line) to 1.0.3-11.fc5, does it work?
>
> Anyway - file a bug report in bugzilla.
>
>   
The system was a pristine system, not even Windoze.  It was loaded with 
FC4 and sat for 2 weeks then was "upgraded" (not reloaded) via CDs to 
FC5.  Very little was done to it in FC4.  I'm pretty confident that 
Firestarter was not installed in FC4.  When I went to install it after 
the FC4/FC5 conversion, it was grabbed from Extras.

I investigated the 1.0.3-11.fc5  version install issue.  When I tried  
"yum update firestarter\* "  It installed the 1.0.3-11.fc5 version and 
it appears to be working with not reconfiguration requirements.  It 
would appear that my problem had something to do with the initialization 
but I tried change protections on directories and removing and 
reinstalling (2 times) to no avail.

If you think of any more data I can collect or tests I can run, let me know.

I will file a bug report tomorrow evening ...and thank you for the 
response and your work on Firestarter.

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