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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 1.10.4, Package name: libpcap-1.10.4, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

This is libpcap, a system-independent interface for user-level packet
capture. libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level network
monitoring. Applications include network statistics collection,
security monitoring, network debugging, etc. Since almost every
system vendor provides a different interface for packet capture, and
since we've developed several tools that require this functionality,
we've created this system-independent API to ease in porting and to
alleviate the need for several system-dependent packet capture modules
in each application.


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   2024-03-16 20:48:38 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (1)
Log message:
Availability.h is also needed by dependent packages
   2024-03-16 20:41:01 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (1)
Log message:
libpcap: Fix building on Mac OS X 10.4
   2023-04-18 09:59:11 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (3) | Package updated
Log message:
libpcap: updated to 1.10.4

Summary for 1.10.4 libpcap release
  Source code:
    Fix spaces before tabs in indentation.
  rpcap:
    Fix name of launchd service.
  Documentation:
    Document use of rpcapd with systemd, launchd, inetd, and xinetd.
  Building and testing:
    Require at least pkg-config 0.17.0, as we use --static.
    Get rid of the remains of gnuc.h.
    Require at least autoconf 2.69.
    Update config.{guess,sub}, timestamps 2023-01-01,2023-01-21.
   2023-01-16 09:17:31 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (5) | Package updated
Log message:
libpcap: updated to 1.10.3

Thursday, January 12, 2023 / The Tcpdump Group
  Summary for 1.10.3 libpcap release
    Source code:
      Sort the PUBHDR variable in Makefile.in in "ls" order.
      Fix typo in comment in pflog.h.
      Remove two no-longer-present files from .gitignore.
      Update code and comments for handling failure to set promiscuous
        mode based on new information.
    Building and testing:
      install: Fixed not to install the non-public pcap-util.h header.
      pcap-config: add a --version flag.
      Makefile.in: Add some missing files in the distclean target.

Saturday, December 31, 2022 / The Tcpdump Group
  Summary for 1.10.2 libpcap release
    Source code:
      Use __builtin_unreachable() in PCAP_UNREACHABLE.
      Use AS_HELP_STRING macro instead of AC_HELP_STRING in the
        configure scripts, to avoid deprecation warnings.
      Change availability tags in pcap.h to make it easier to
        arrange for it to be used in Darwin releases.
      Use AS_HELP_STRING for --enable-remote.
      Fix some formatting string issues found by cppcheck.
      Various small code and comment cleanups.
      Use PCAP_ERROR (defined as -1) rather than explicit -1 for
        functions the documentation says return PCAP_ERROR.
      Remove unused code from the filter compiler.
      Use _declspec(deprecated(msg)) rather than __pragma(deprecated)
        for Windows deprecation warnings, so the message that was
        specified shows up.
      diag-control.h: define PCAP_DO_PRAGMA() iff we're going to use it.
      Use "%d" to print some signed ints.
      Use the Wayback Machine for a removed document in a comment.
      Add some const qualifiers.
      RDMA: Use PRIu64 to print a uint64_t.
    "Dead" pcap_ts from pcap_open_dead() and ..._with_tstamp_precision():
        Don't crash if pcap_breakloop() is called.
    Savefiles:
      Fix pcap_dispatch() to return number of packets processed, rather
        than 0, even at EOF.
      If we get an error writing the packet header, don't write the
        packet data.
      Put PFLOG UID and PID values in the header into host byte order
        when reading a LINKTYPE_PFLOG file.
      Put CAN ID field in CAN pseudo-headers for LINUX_SLL2, as we do
        for LINUX_SLL.
      Fix inorrectly-computed "real" length for isochronous USB
        transfers when reading savefiles.
      Don't crash if pcap_can_set_rfmon() is called.
      Fix pcap_offline_read() loop.
    Capture:
      Never process more than INT_MAX packets in a pcap_dispatch() call,
        to avoid integer overflow.
      Improve error messages for "no such device" and "permission
        denied" errors.
      SITA: Fix a typo in a variable name.
    Packet filtering:
      Get PFLOG header length from the length value in the header.
      Support all the direction, reason, and action types supported by
        all systems that support PFLOG.
      Don't require PFLOG support on the target machine in order to
        support PFLOG filtering.
      Expand abbreviations into "proto X" properly.
      gencode.c: Update a comment about the VLAN TPID test.
      Add the minimum and maximum matching DLTs to an error message.
    Linux:
      Fix memory leak in capture device open.
      Fix detection of CAN/CAN FD packets in direction check.
      Fix double-free crashes on errors such as running on a kernel with
        CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP not configured.
      Use DLT_CAN_SOCKETCAN for CANbus interfaces.
      Make sure the CANFD_FDF can be relied on to indicate whether a
        CANbus packet is a CAN frame or a CAN FD frame
      Improve error message for "out of memory" errors for kernel
        filters.
      Fix pcap_findalldevs() to find usbmon devices.
      Fix handling of VLAN tagged packets if the link-layer type is
        changed from DLT_LINUX_SLL to DLT_LINUX_SLL2.
      Always turn on PACKET_AUXDATA.
      We require 2.6.27 or later, so PACKET_RESERVE is available.
      Make sure there's reserved space for a DLT_LINUX_SLL2 header
        when capturing.
      Correctly compute the "real" length for isochronous USB transfers.
      Don't have an eventfd descriptor open in non-blocking mode, so as
        not to waste descriptors.
      netfilter: Squelch a narrowing warning (To be look at before 2038).
    BPF capture (*BSD, macOS, AIX, Solaris 11):
      Fix case where a device open might fail, rather than falling back
        to a smaller buffer size, when the initial buffer size is too
        big.
      Use an unsigned device number to iterate over BPF devices, to
        squelch a compiler warning.
    NetBSD:
      Fix handling of LINKTYPE_HDLC/DLT_HDLC.
    rpcap:
      Fix unaligned accesses in rpcapd.
      Fix code to process port number.
      Clean up findalldevs code in rpcapd.
      Clean up bufferizing code.
      Fix a file descriptor/handle leak in pcap_findalldevs_ex()
        (Coverity CID 1507240).
      Improve error messages for host and port resolution errors.
      Fix connect code not to fail if both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are
        tried.
      Improve connect failure error message.
      Provide an error message for a bad authentication reply size.
      For link-layer types with host-endian fields in the header, fix
        those fields if capturing from a server with a different byte
        order.
      Suppress temporarily the warnings with "enable remote packet \ 
capture".
    Windows:
      Add support for NdisMediumIP.
      Don't require applications using pcap to be built with VS 2015 or
        later.
      Use the correct string for the DLL VersionInfo.
      Remove unnecessary DllMain() function.
      Correctly handle ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION from
        PacketGetTimestampModes() (indicate that WinPcap or an older
        version of Npcap is probably installed).
      Fix use-after-free in some cases when a pcap_t is closed.
      Make sure an error is returned by pcap_create_interface() if
        PacketOpenAdapter() fails.
      Return an error if the driver reports 0 timestamp modes supported.
      Close the ADAPTER handle for some errors in
        pcap_create_interface().
      Get rid of old umaintained VS project files.
      Fix deprecation warning for pcap_handle().
      Npcap is now at npcap.com, not npcap.org.
      Make sure "no such device" and "no permission to open \ 
device"
        errors show up in pcap_activate(), not pcap_create() (fixes,
        among other things, tcpdump -i <interface-number>).
      npcap: squelch deprecation warnings for kernel dump mode.
    Haiku:
      Implement pcap_lib_version(), as now required.
      Handle negative or too-large snaplen values.
      Fix various build issues and warnings.
    Building and testing:
      Update configure-time universal build checks for macOS.
      Update config.guess and config.sub.
      If we look for an SSL library with pkg-config in configure script,
        try pkg-config first.
      If we have pkg-config and Homebrew, try to set pkg-config up to
        find Homebrew packages.
      Handle some Autoconf/make errors better.
      Use "git archive" for the "make releasetar" process.
      Remove the release candidate rcX targets.
      Fix compiling on Solaris 9/SPARC and 11/AMD64.
      Address assorted compiler warnings.
      Fix cross-building on Linux for Windows with mingw32 for Win64
      Properly set installation directory on Windows when not compiling
        with MSVC.
      Fix configure script checks for compiler flags.
      Give more details if check for usable (F)Lex fails.
      Fix compiling with GCC 4.6.4.
      Don't use add_compile_options() with CMake, as we currently don't
        require 2.8.12, where it first appeared.
      Don't provide -L/usr/lib for pkg-config --libs in pkg-config.
      Fix error message for inadequate Bison/Berkeley YACC.
      configure: correctly do some DPDK checks.
      Only use pkg-config when checking for DPDK.
      Allow the path in which DPDK is installed to be specified.
      Use pkg-config first when checking for libibverbs.
      CMake: fix check for libibverbs with Sun's C compiler.
      Have CMake warn if no capture mechanism can be found.
      Don't do stuff requiring 3.19 or later on earlier CMakes.
      Squelch some CMake warnings.
      Fix diag-control.h to handle compiling with clang-cl.
      Cleanup various leftover cruft in the configure script.
      Fix building without protochain support.
      Check for a usable YACC (or Bison) and {F}lex in CMake, as we do
        in autotools.
      Only check for a C++ compiler on Haiku, as that's the only
        platform with C++ code, and make sure they generate code for
        the same instruction set bit-width (both 32-bit or both 64-bit)
      On Solaris, check the target bit-width and set PKG_CONFIG_PATH
        appropriately, to handle the mess that is the D-Bus library
        package.
      Fix generation of pcap-config and libpcap.pc files.
      pcap-config: don't assume the system library directory is /usr/lib.
      pcap-config: add a --static-pcap-only flag.
      Cirrus CI: Use the same configuration as for the main branch.
      Add four libpcap test files.
      Update Npcap SDK to 1.13.
      Makefile.in: Use TEST_DIST, like for tcpdump.
      Remove awk code from mkdep.
      Cirrus CI: Add the libssl-dev package in the Linux task.
      Cirrus CI: Add the openssl@3 brew package in the macOS task.
      Get "make shellcheck" to pass again.
      CMake: Build valgrindtest only if Autoconf would.
      CMake: use ${CMAKE_INSTALL_SBINDIR} rather than just sbin.
      CMake: use NUL: as the null device on Windows.
      autoconf: fix typo in test of macOS version.
      Makefile.in: Add two missing files in EXTRA_DIST.
      autotools, cmake: provide an rpath option if necessary.
      configure: get rid of the attempt to auto-run PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG.
      configure: use PKG_CHECK_MODULES to run pkg-config.
    Documentation:
      Add README.solaris.md.
      Add SCTP to pcap-filter(7).
      Note that = and == are the same operator in filters.
      Update INSTALL.md, README.md, and README.solaris.md.
      Update and clean up CONTRIBUTING.md.
      Trim documentation of support for now-dead UN*Xe and older
        versions of other UN*Xes.
      Move the "how to allocate a LINKTYPE_/DLT_ value" documentation to
        the web site.
      Clean up man pages.
      Move README.capture-module to the web site.
      Improve some protocol details in pcap-filter(7).
      Refine "relop" notes in pcap-filter(7).
      In pcap-filter(7) "domain" is an id.
      Discuss backward compatibility in pcap-filter(7).
      Other improvements to pcap-filter(7).
      Document pcap_breakloop(3PCAP) interaction with threads better.
      Document PCAP_ERROR_NOT_ACTIVATED for more routines.
   2021-11-16 17:18:48 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (5) | Package updated
Log message:
libpcap: updated to 1.10.1

Summary for 1.10.1 libpcap release (so far!)
  Packet filtering:
    Fix "type XXX subtype YYY" giving a parse error
  Source code:
    Add PCAP_AVAILABLE_1_11.
  Building and testing:
    Rename struct bpf_aux_data to avoid NetBSD compile errors
    Squelch some compiler warnings
    Squelch some Bison warnings
    Fix cross-builds with older kernels lacking BPF_MOD and BPF_XOR
    Fix Bison detection for minor version 0.
    Fix parallel build with FreeBSD make.
    Get DLT_MATCHING_MAX right in gencode.c on NetBSD.
    Define timeradd() and timersub() if necessary.
    Fix Cygwin/MSYS target directories.
    Fix symlinking with DESTDIR.
    Fix generation of libpcap.pc with CMake when not building a shared
        library.
    Check for Arm64 as well as x86-64 when looking for packet.lib on
        Windows.
  Documentation:
    Refine Markdown in README.md.
    Improve the description of portrange in filters.
    README.linux.md isn't Markdown, rename it just README.linux.
  pcapng:
    Support reading version 1.2, which some writers produce, and which
        is the same as 1.0 (some new block types were added, but
        that's not sufficient reason to bump the minor version number,
        as code that understands those new block types can handle them
        in a 1.0 file)
  Linux:
    Drop support for text-mode USB captures, as we require a 2.6.27
        or later kernel (credit to Chaoyuan Peng for noting the
        sscanf vulnerabilities in the text-mode code that got me to
        realize that we didn't need this code any more)
    Bluetooth: fix non-blocking mode.
    Don't assume that all compilers used to build for Linux support
        the __atomic builtins
  Windows:
    Add more information in "interface disappeared" error messages, in
      the hopes of trying to figure out the cause.
    Treat ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED as "device was removed".
    Indicate in the error message which "device was removed" error
        occurred.
    Report the Windows error status if PacketSendPacket() fails.
    Use %lu for ULONGs in error message formats.
    Don't treat the inability to find airpcap.dll as an error.
    Ignore spurious error reports by Microsoft Surface mobile
        telephony modem driver
  rpcap:
    Clean up error checking and error messages for server address
        lookup.

Summary for 1.10.0 libpcap release
  Add support for capturing on DPDK devices
  Label most APIs by the first release in which they're available
  Fix some memory leaks, including in pcap_compile()
  Add pcap_datalink_val_to_description_or_dlt()
  Handle the pcap private data in a fashion that makes fewer
     assumptions about memory layouts (might fix GitHub issue #940
     on ARM)
  Fix some thread safety issues
  pcap_findalldevs(): don't sort interfaces by unit number
  Always return a list of supported time-stamp types, even if only
      host time stamps are supported
  Increase the maximum snaplen for LINKTYPE_USBPCAP/DLT_USBPCAP
  Report the DLT description in error messages
  Add pcap_init() for first-time initialization and global option
      setting; it's not required, but may be used
  Remove (unused) SITA support
  Capture file reading:
      Correctly handle pcapng captures with more than one IDB with a
          snspshot length greater than the supported maximum
  Capture file writing:
      Create the file in pcap_dump_open_append() if it doesn't exist
  Packet filtering:
      Fix "unknown ether proto 'aarp'"
      Add a new filter "ifindex" for DLT_LINUX_SLL2 files on all
          platforms and live Linux captures
      Add a hack to the optimizer to try to catch certain optimizer
          loops (should prevent GitHub issue #112)
      Show special Linux BPF offsets symbolically in bpf_image() and
          bpf_dump()
      Added support for ICMPv6 types 1-4 as tokens with names
      Remove undocumented and rather old "ether proto" protocols
      Catch invalid IPv4 addresses in filters
      Don't assume ARM supports unaligned accesses
  Security and other issues found by analysis:
      Fix various security issues reported by Charles Smith at Tangible
          Security
      Fix various security issues reported by Include Security
      Fix some issues found by cppcheck.
      Add some overflow checks in the optimizer
  rpcap:
      Support rpcap-over-TLS
      Redo protocol version negotiation to avoid problems with old
          servers (it still works with servers using the old negotiation,
          as well as servers not supporting negotiation)
      Error handling cleanups
      Add some new authentication libpcap error codes for specific
          errors
      Fix some inetd issues in rpcapd
      Fix rpcapd core dumps with invalid configuration file
      On UN*X, don't have rpcapd tell the client why authentication
          failed, so a brute-force attacker can't distinguish between
          "unknown user name" and "known user name, wrong \ 
password"
      Allow rpcapd to rebind more rapidly (GitHub issue #765)
  Documentation:
      Improve man pages, including adding backward compatibility notes
  Building and testing:
      Require, and assume, some level of C99 support in the C compiler
      Require Visual Studio 2015 or later if using Visual Studio
      Fix configure script issues, including with libnl on Linux
      Fix CMake issues
      Squelch complaints from Bison about "%define api.pure" being
          deprecated
      Fix compilation of pcap-tc.c
  Linux:
      Require PF_PACKET support, and kernel 2.6.27 or later
      Handle systems without AF_INET or AF_UNIX socket support
      Get rid of Wireless Extensions for turning monitor mode on
      Proper memory sync for PACKET_MMAP (may prevent GitHub issue
          #898)
      Drop support for libnl 1 and 2.
      Return error on interface going away, but not if it just went
          down but is still present
      Set socket protocol only after packet ring configured,
          reducing bogus packet drop reports
      Get ifdrop stats from sysfs.
      When adjusting BPF programs, do not subtract the
          SLL[2]_HDR_LEN if the location is negative (special metadata
          offset), to preserve references to metadata; see
          \ 
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/480#issuecomment-486827278
      Report a warning for unknown ARPHRD types
      Have pcap_breakloop() forcibly break out of a sleeping
          capture loop
      Add support for DSA data link types
      For raw USB bus capture, use the snapshot length to set the
          buffer size, and set the len field to reflect the length
          in the URB (GitHub issue #808)
      With a timeout of zero, wait indefinitely
      Clean up support for some non-GNU libc C libraries
      Add DLT_LINUX_SLL2 for cooked-mode captures
      Probe CONFIGURATION descriptor of connected USB devices
      Treat EPERM on ethtool ioctls as meaning "not supported", as
          permissions checks are done before checking whether the
          ioctl is supported at all
  macOS:
      Cope with getting EPWROFF from SIOCGIFMEDIA
      Treat EPERM on SIOCGIFMEDIA as meaning "not supported", as
          permissions checks are done before checking whether the
          ioctl is supported at all
      Treat ENXIO when reading packets as meaning "the interface
          was removed"
      Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
          down", if the interface was removed during a capture
  FreeBSD:
      Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
      Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
          down", if the interface was removed during a capture
  NetBSD:
      Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
      Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
          down", if the interface was removed during a capture
  OpenBSD:
      Treat EIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
      Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
          down", if the interface was removed during a capture
  DragonFly BSD:
      Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
      Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
          down", if the interface was removed during a capture
  Solaris:
      Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
      Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
          down", if the interface was removed during a capture
  AIX:
      Fix loading of BPF kernel extension
      Treat ENXIO as meaning "the interface was removed"
      Report "the interface disappeared", not "the interface went
          down", if the interface was removed during a capture
  Windows:
      Make the snapshot length work even if pcap_setfilter()
          isn't called
      Fix compilation on Cygwin/MSYS
      Add pcap_handle(), and deprecate pcap_fileno()
      Report PCAP_ERROR_NO_SUCH_DEVICE for a non-existent device
      Return an appropriate error message for device removed or
          device unusable due to a suspend/resume
      Report a warning for unknown NdisMedium types
      Have pcap_breakloop() forcibly break out of a sleeping
          capture loop
      Clean up building DLL
      Handle CRT mismatch for pcap_dump_fopen()
      Map NdisMediumWirelessWan to DLT_RAW
      Add AirPcap support in a module, rather than using
          WinPcap/Npcap's support for it
      Report the system error for PacketSetHwFilter() failures
      Add support for getting and setting packet time stamp types
          with Npcap
      Have pcap_init() allow selecting whether the API should use
          local code page strings or UTF-8 strings (including error
          messages)
  Haiku:
      Add capture support
   2021-10-26 13:07:15 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (958)
Log message:
net: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes

Not committed (merge conflicts...):

net/radsecproxy/distinfo

The following distfiles could not be fetched (fetched conditionally?):

./net/citrix_ica/distinfo citrix_ica-10.6.115659/en.linuxx86.tar.gz
./net/djbdns/distinfo dnscache-1.05-multiple-ip.patch
./net/djbdns/distinfo djbdns-1.05-test28.diff.xz
./net/djbdns/distinfo djbdns-1.05-ignoreip2.patch
./net/djbdns/distinfo djbdns-1.05-multiip.diff
./net/djbdns/distinfo djbdns-cachestats.patch
   2021-10-07 16:43:07 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (962)
Log message:
net: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2020-01-26 18:32:28 by Roland Illig | Files touched by this commit (981)
Log message:
all: migrate homepages from http to https

pkglint -r --network --only "migrate"

As a side-effect of migrating the homepages, pkglint also fixed a few
indentations in unrelated lines. These and the new homepages have been
checked manually.