I would like to request that a package be made available via Pakfire for GPM, which enables the use of an attached mouse via the console. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPM_%28software%29 While it might seem silly to use a mouse in a text console, it is quite handy when one must use the console for editing any text files or other, as it allows one to select text to copy it and then right-click to paste.
This package should be added to the default installation, because it is (when available) used by a lot of software.
Any update on this?
Closing this (last update 2.5y ago). If it is still up to date, please reopen.
GPM would still be a wonderful addition to the distribution.
It may be stupid, and I apologize in advance, but in my opinion in the firewall log if there was an indication of the number of the rule that causes a DROP, but also an OUTGOINGFW (for example) it would be easier to identify a problem. By the way, many commercial firewalls (CheckPoint, Fortinet, WatchGuard, etc.) already do this
Looking at the gpm package the last release was in 2012. 5 issues post 2014 have been fixed and committed but 19 issues from 2014 onwards are still open. The owner of the repo has said in the past that he would do a release if pull request were submitted for changes but there are 12 open pull requests from 2014 onwards, although 10 pull requests produced between 2013 and 2020 have been merged. So some issues being dealt with, but very slowly and no release updates. I am not sure that this package is supported enough to use in IPFire. There is another package that apparently does similar things. https://salsa.debian.org/consolation-team/consolation This is a bit more up to date. The last commit was in Aug 2022. The project does not have any releases but it does have tags and the last one was for version 0.0.9 in Aug 2022. The downside of this one is that it is clearly at a very early stage in terms of its version number.
Adolf: What are other distributions using at this point?
I didn't have any idea so I did a search on some of the Firewall distributions looking through the documentation and git repos. pfsense opnsense vyos smoothwall and none of them has anything related to gmp or general mouse package. With some other more general searches then smoothwall and pfsense did flag up gmp but this was the General Mathematics Package used with MPFR. So based on the above it would suggest that the General Mouse Package is not generally used in firewall distros.
Thank you, Adolf. Do note that it is GPM (General Purpose Mouse) and not GMP (General Mouse Package). I was thinking of Ubuntu, Debian, Centos, etc. but this really isn't a big concern, it was just something that would be nice to have.
attilay2k: FYI, it looks like you were commenting on the wrong bug.
(In reply to Tom Rymes from comment #9) > Thank you, Adolf. Do note that it is GPM (General Purpose Mouse) and not GMP > (General Mouse Package). > > I was thinking of Ubuntu, Debian, Centos, etc. but this really isn't a big > concern, it was just something that would be nice to have. Sorry, my mistake with the initials. I re-did my searching of the same firewall distros to check if I missed anything with my initials error. This time I searched with both gpm and general purpose mouse and all came back, either with nothing being found or with smoothwall a response from the forum that gpm is not available.
Bug being closed as there is no available package to do this except for one that is more than 11 years since the last release and 10 years since the last issue was fixed. Several outstanding issues that have not been touched since then. No other firewall distros checked have any equivalent package type.