How to install patch-o-matic

[Alistair Tonner]

On August 27, 2004 04:50 am, Bassam A. Al-Khaffaf wrote:
> Thanks for the great information,
> 	I have successfully upgraded and recompiled the kernel according to
> the URL you gave to me.
>
> You have mentioned to compile the user space, so what do u mean by user
> space and how to compile it, do you mean I have to go inside the
> /usr/src/iptables-1.2.11 and write the following instructions again:
>
> make KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux-2.4.27
> make install KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux-2.4.27
>
> Do I need to compile this user space before I start the actual
> configuration and compilation for the kernel as described in the URL
> http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html?

>
> Regards
> Bassam
>

	Short answer is yes.

	iptables userspace refers to the iptables code itself that is NOT part of the 
kernel (kernelspace)
	Thus the iptables package itself.

	Alistair