[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1117211: firewalld: It would be nice to have a service for apt-cacher-ng. XML file included.

[Michael Biebl]

Am 01.05.26 um 22:20 schrieb Charles Curley:
> On Fri, 1 May 2026 21:40:07 +0200
> Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Charles,
>>
>> thanks for your contribution!
>>
>> Would you mind raising this issue with the apt-cacher-ng maintainer?
>> (in CC)
>>
>> I try to avoid patches to firewalld and the addition of a rather
>> Debian specific service like apt-cacher-ng is unlikely to be accepted
>> by firewalld upstream. So I would prefer if this integration is
>> shipped by the apt-cacher-ng package instead.
> 
> Whatever works for all of you.
> 
> OK, non-maintainer ignorance at play here. Shipping this with ACNG
> works if firewalld is already installed. The ACNG installer looks for
> firewalld, and if it finds it, installs the file. I am assuming that if
> the installer doesn't find firewalld, it refrains from installing the
> file.
> 
> However, if the user installs ACNG, and then later firewalld, is there a
> mechanism to install this file? I ran into a similar situation with
> libvirt, and had to do a "apt reinstall firewalld" to get the virtual
> networking and firewalld to play well.

If the file /usr/lib/firewalld/services/apt-cacher-ng.xml is installed 
by apt-cacher-ng, it will be picked up automatically by firewalld.


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