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* [ptxdist] [PATCH] tcpdump: Version bump. 4.99.1 -> 4.99.2
@ 2023-01-02 10:09 Christian Melki
  2023-01-06 16:01 ` [ptxdist] [APPLIED] " Michael Olbrich
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Christian Melki @ 2023-01-02 10:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ptxdist

Mostly bugfixes.
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/e6d119663fd850eca250e7b999015b0d3b856f28/CHANGES#L54
Reworked .in file for various errors.

* Correct various (double-) whitespace errors.
* libcap-ng is not "as well" in relation to libpcap as in wording.
It's a completely different library related to POSIX
capabilities. It's needed for tcpdump to run in non-root mode.
Don't make them sound like they're similar.
* Some other minor text fixes.

Signed-off-by: Christian Melki <christian.melki@t2data.com>
---
 rules/tcpdump.in   | 23 +++++++++++++----------
 rules/tcpdump.make |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rules/tcpdump.in b/rules/tcpdump.in
index 74d607252..bc5ffdecc 100644
--- a/rules/tcpdump.in
+++ b/rules/tcpdump.in
@@ -6,35 +6,38 @@ menuconfig TCPDUMP
 	select LIBCAP_NG if TCPDUMP_ENABLE_LIBCAP_NG
 	select OPENSSL if TCPDUMP_ENABLE_CRYPTO
 	help
-	  Tcpdump  prints out the headers of packets on a network interface
-	  that match the boolean expression.  It can also be run with
+	  Tcpdump prints out the headers of packets on a network interface
+	  that match the boolean expression. It can also be run with
 	  the -w flag, which causes it to save the packet data to a file
 	  for later analysis, and/or with the -r flag, which causes it to
 	  read from a saved packet file rather than to read  packets from
-	  a network interface.  In all cases, only packets that match
+	  a network interface. In all cases, only packets that match
 	  expression will be processed by tcpdump.
 
 if TCPDUMP
 
 config TCPDUMP_ENABLE_LIBCAP_NG
 	bool
-	prompt "use libcap-ng as well"
+	prompt "enable libcap-ng support"
 	help
-	  Use libpcap and libcap-ng
+	  Use libcap-ng (POSIX capabilities) in tcpdump.
+	  It allows tcpdump to shift uid/gid and chroot to
+	  operate in a non-privileged mode instead of using root.
 
 config TCPDUMP_ENABLE_CRYPTO
 	bool
 	prompt "enable crypto support"
 	help
-	  Select this, if you don't need support for
-	  encryption (e.g. IPsec ESP packets)
+	  Select this if you need support for decoding various
+	  protocols in relation to encryption (f.ex. IPsec packets)
 
 config TCPDUMP_SMB
 	bool
-	prompt "enable possibly-buggy SMB printer"
+	prompt "enable SMB-printer decoding support"
 	default y
 	help
-	  Notes from configure, when this entry is checked:
-	   The SMB printer may have exploitable buffer overflows!!!
+	  Select this if need support for decoding packets
+	  in relation to SMB/CIFS (printers).
+	  Still considered buggy.
 
 endif
diff --git a/rules/tcpdump.make b/rules/tcpdump.make
index b618c8749..4a040e017 100644
--- a/rules/tcpdump.make
+++ b/rules/tcpdump.make
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ PACKAGES-$(PTXCONF_TCPDUMP) += tcpdump
 #
 # Paths and names
 #
-TCPDUMP_VERSION	:= 4.99.1
-TCPDUMP_MD5	:= 929a255c71a9933608bd7c31927760f7
+TCPDUMP_VERSION	:= 4.99.2
+TCPDUMP_MD5	:= 69f8cc8e44606ba49482fa98c2f7f937
 TCPDUMP		:= tcpdump-$(TCPDUMP_VERSION)
 TCPDUMP_SUFFIX	:= tar.gz
 TCPDUMP_URL	:= http://www.tcpdump.org/release/$(TCPDUMP).$(TCPDUMP_SUFFIX)
-- 
2.34.1




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