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iptables/0017-doc-Add-deprecation-notices-to-all-relevant-man-page.patch
Phil Sutter d5f1528238 iptables-1.8.7-15.el9 
- doc: Improve deprecation notices a bit
- nft: cache: Sort chains on demand only
- nft: Increase BATCH_PAGE_SIZE to support huge rulesets

Related: rhbz#1945151
Resolves: rhbz#1978362
2021-07-02 18:26:15 +02:00

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From cbe4ed2b8d13b1d86e71b4d4fa434d1762f80463 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phil Sutter <psutter@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 18:44:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add deprecation notices to all relevant man pages
This is RHEL9 trying to friendly kick people towards nftables.
---
iptables/arptables-nft-restore.8 | 13 ++++++++++++-
iptables/arptables-nft-save.8 | 14 +++++++++++++-
iptables/arptables-nft.8 | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
iptables/ebtables-nft.8 | 15 ++++++++++++++-
iptables/iptables-apply.8.in | 14 +++++++++++++-
iptables/iptables-restore.8.in | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
iptables/iptables-save.8.in | 15 ++++++++++++++-
iptables/iptables.8.in | 17 +++++++++++++++++
iptables/xtables-monitor.8.in | 11 +++++++++++
9 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/iptables/arptables-nft-restore.8 b/iptables/arptables-nft-restore.8
index 09d9082cf9fd3..b1bf02998f9cc 100644
--- a/iptables/arptables-nft-restore.8
+++ b/iptables/arptables-nft-restore.8
@@ -24,6 +24,17 @@ arptables-restore \- Restore ARP Tables (nft-based)
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBarptables\-restore
.SH DESCRIPTION
+This tool is
+.B deprecated
+in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is maintenance only and will not receive new
+features. New setups should use
+.BR nft (8).
+Existing setups should migrate to
+.BR nft (8)
+when possible. See
+.UR https://red.ht/nft_your_tables
+.UE
+for details.
.PP
.B arptables-restore
is used to restore ARP Tables from data specified on STDIN or
@@ -35,5 +46,5 @@ flushes (deletes) all previous contents of the respective ARP Table.
.SH AUTHOR
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
.SH SEE ALSO
-\fBarptables\-save\fP(8), \fBarptables\fP(8)
+\fBarptables\-save\fP(8), \fBarptables\fP(8), \fBnft\fP(8)
.PP
diff --git a/iptables/arptables-nft-save.8 b/iptables/arptables-nft-save.8
index 905e59854cc28..49bb0f6260f2f 100644
--- a/iptables/arptables-nft-save.8
+++ b/iptables/arptables-nft-save.8
@@ -27,6 +27,18 @@ arptables-save \- dump arptables rules to stdout (nft-based)
\fBarptables\-save\fP [\fB\-V\fP]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
+This tool is
+.B deprecated
+in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is maintenance only and will not receive new
+features. New setups should use
+.BR nft (8).
+Existing setups should migrate to
+.BR nft (8)
+when possible. See
+.UR https://red.ht/nft_your_tables
+.UE
+for details.
+.PP
.B arptables-save
is used to dump the contents of an ARP Table in easily parseable format
to STDOUT. Use I/O-redirection provided by your shell to write to a file.
@@ -43,5 +55,5 @@ Print version information and exit.
.SH AUTHOR
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
.SH SEE ALSO
-\fBarptables\-restore\fP(8), \fBarptables\fP(8)
+\fBarptables\-restore\fP(8), \fBarptables\fP(8), \fBnft\fP(8)
.PP
diff --git a/iptables/arptables-nft.8 b/iptables/arptables-nft.8
index ea31e0842acd4..ec5b993a41e8b 100644
--- a/iptables/arptables-nft.8
+++ b/iptables/arptables-nft.8
@@ -39,6 +39,19 @@ arptables \- ARP table administration (nft-based)
.BR "arptables " [ "-t table" ] " -P chain target " [ options ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
+.PP
+This tool is
+.B deprecated
+in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is maintenance only and will not receive new
+features. New setups should use
+.BR nft (8).
+Existing setups should migrate to
+.BR nft (8)
+when possible. See
+.UR https://red.ht/nft_your_tables
+.UE
+for details.
+.PP
.B arptables
is a user space tool, it is used to set up and maintain the
tables of ARP rules in the Linux kernel. These rules inspect
@@ -340,9 +353,13 @@ bridges, the same may be achieved using
chain in
.BR ebtables .
+This tool is deprecated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is maintenance only and
+will not receive new features. New setups should use \fBnft\fP(8). Existing
+setups should migrate to \fBnft\fP(8) when possible.
+
.SH MAILINGLISTS
.BR "" "See " http://netfilter.org/mailinglists.html
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR xtables-nft "(8), " iptables "(8), " ebtables "(8), " ip (8)
+.BR xtables-nft "(8), " iptables "(8), " ebtables "(8), " ip "(8), " nft (8)
.PP
.BR "" "See " https://wiki.nftables.org
diff --git a/iptables/ebtables-nft.8 b/iptables/ebtables-nft.8
index 1fa5ad9388cc0..5bdc0bb8a939e 100644
--- a/iptables/ebtables-nft.8
+++ b/iptables/ebtables-nft.8
@@ -52,6 +52,19 @@ ebtables \- Ethernet bridge frame table administration (nft-based)
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
+.PP
+This tool is
+.B deprecated
+in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is maintenance only and will not receive new
+features. New setups should use
+.BR nft (8).
+Existing setups should migrate to
+.BR nft (8)
+when possible. See
+.UR https://red.ht/nft_your_tables
+.UE
+for details.
+.PP
.B ebtables
is an application program used to set up and maintain the
tables of rules (inside the Linux kernel) that inspect
@@ -1111,6 +1124,6 @@ table. Also there is no support for
.B string
match. And finally, this list is probably not complete.
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR xtables-nft "(8), " iptables "(8), " ip (8)
+.BR xtables-nft "(8), " iptables "(8), " ip "(8), " nft (8)
.PP
.BR "" "See " https://wiki.nftables.org
diff --git a/iptables/iptables-apply.8.in b/iptables/iptables-apply.8.in
index f0ed4e5f8d450..7f99a21ed2b61 100644
--- a/iptables/iptables-apply.8.in
+++ b/iptables/iptables-apply.8.in
@@ -11,6 +11,18 @@ iptables-apply \- a safer way to update iptables remotely
\fBiptables\-apply\fP [\-\fBhV\fP] [\fB-t\fP \fItimeout\fP] [\fB-w\fP \fIsavefile\fP] {[\fIrulesfile]|-c [runcmd]}\fP
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
+This tool is
+.B deprecated
+in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is maintenance only and will not receive new
+features. New setups should use
+.BR nft (8).
+Existing setups should migrate to
+.BR nft (8)
+when possible. See
+.UR https://red.ht/nft_your_tables
+.UE
+for details.
+.PP
iptables\-apply will try to apply a new rulesfile (as output by
iptables-save, read by iptables-restore) or run a command to configure
iptables and then prompt the user whether the changes are okay. If the
@@ -47,7 +59,7 @@ Display usage information.
Display version information.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
-\fBiptables-restore\fP(8), \fBiptables-save\fP(8), \fBiptables\fR(8).
+\fBiptables-restore\fP(8), \fBiptables-save\fP(8), \fBiptables\fR(8), \fBnft\fP(8).
.SH LEGALESE
.PP
Original iptables-apply - Copyright 2006 Martin F. Krafft <madduck@madduck.net>.
diff --git a/iptables/iptables-restore.8.in b/iptables/iptables-restore.8.in
index b4b62f92740d1..1bbf7a0d98d0a 100644
--- a/iptables/iptables-restore.8.in
+++ b/iptables/iptables-restore.8.in
@@ -31,6 +31,19 @@ ip6tables-restore \(em Restore IPv6 Tables
[\fB\-W\fP \fIusecs\fP] [\fB\-M\fP \fImodprobe\fP] [\fB\-T\fP \fIname\fP]
[\fBfile\fP]
.SH DESCRIPTION
+These tools are
+.B deprecated
+in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They are maintenance only and will not receive new
+features. New setups should use
+.BR nft (8).
+Existing setups should migrate to
+.BR nft (8)
+when possible. See
+.UR https://red.ht/nft_your_tables
+.UE
+for details. There is also
+.BR iptables\-restore\-translate (8)/ ip6tables\-restore\-translate (8)
+to help with the migration.
.PP
.B iptables-restore
and
@@ -87,7 +100,9 @@ from Rusty Russell.
.br
Andras Kis-Szabo <kisza@sch.bme.hu> contributed ip6tables-restore.
.SH SEE ALSO
-\fBiptables\-apply\fP(8),\fBiptables\-save\fP(8), \fBiptables\fP(8)
+\fBiptables\-apply\fP(8), \fBiptables\-save\fP(8), \fBiptables\fP(8),
+\fBnft\fP(8), \fBiptables\-restore\-translate\fP(8),
+\fBip6tables\-restore\-translate\fP(8)
.PP
The iptables-HOWTO, which details more iptables usage, the NAT-HOWTO,
which details NAT, and the netfilter-hacking-HOWTO which details the
diff --git a/iptables/iptables-save.8.in b/iptables/iptables-save.8.in
index 7683fd3780f72..6fe50b2d446e5 100644
--- a/iptables/iptables-save.8.in
+++ b/iptables/iptables-save.8.in
@@ -30,6 +30,18 @@ ip6tables-save \(em dump iptables rules
[\fB\-t\fP \fItable\fP] [\fB\-f\fP \fIfilename\fP]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
+These tools are
+.B deprecated
+in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They are maintenance only and will not receive new
+features. New setups should use
+.BR nft (8).
+Existing setups should migrate to
+.BR nft (8)
+when possible. See
+.UR https://red.ht/nft_your_tables
+.UE
+for details.
+.PP
.B iptables-save
and
.B ip6tables-save
@@ -62,7 +74,8 @@ Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
.br
Andras Kis-Szabo <kisza@sch.bme.hu> contributed ip6tables-save.
.SH SEE ALSO
-\fBiptables\-apply\fP(8),\fBiptables\-restore\fP(8), \fBiptables\fP(8)
+\fBiptables\-apply\fP(8),\fBiptables\-restore\fP(8), \fBiptables\fP(8),
+\fBnft\fP(8)
.PP
The iptables-HOWTO, which details more iptables usage, the NAT-HOWTO,
which details NAT, and the netfilter-hacking-HOWTO which details the
diff --git a/iptables/iptables.8.in b/iptables/iptables.8.in
index 999cf339845f9..895cc7b111eb9 100644
--- a/iptables/iptables.8.in
+++ b/iptables/iptables.8.in
@@ -55,6 +55,20 @@ match = \fB\-m\fP \fImatchname\fP [\fIper-match-options\fP]
.PP
target = \fB\-j\fP \fItargetname\fP [\fIper\-target\-options\fP]
.SH DESCRIPTION
+These tools are
+.B deprecated
+in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They are maintenance only and will not receive new
+features. New setups should use
+.BR nft (8).
+Existing setups should migrate to
+.BR nft (8)
+when possible. See
+.UR https://red.ht/nft_your_tables
+.UE
+for details. There is also
+.BR iptables\-translate (8)/ ip6tables\-translate (8)
+to help with the migration.
+.PP
\fBIptables\fP and \fBip6tables\fP are used to set up, maintain, and inspect the
tables of IPv4 and IPv6 packet
filter rules in the Linux kernel. Several different tables
@@ -447,6 +461,9 @@ There are several other changes in iptables.
\fBiptables\-save\fP(8),
\fBiptables\-restore\fP(8),
\fBiptables\-extensions\fP(8),
+\fBnft\fP(8),
+\fBiptables\-translate\fP(8),
+\fBip6tables\-translate\fP(8)
.PP
The packet-filtering-HOWTO details iptables usage for
packet filtering, the NAT-HOWTO details NAT,
diff --git a/iptables/xtables-monitor.8.in b/iptables/xtables-monitor.8.in
index b647a79eb64ed..bbccf009e8269 100644
--- a/iptables/xtables-monitor.8.in
+++ b/iptables/xtables-monitor.8.in
@@ -6,6 +6,17 @@ xtables-monitor \(em show changes to rule set and trace-events
.PP
\
.SH DESCRIPTION
+This tool is
+.B deprecated
+in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is maintenance only and will not receive new
+features. New setups should use
+.BR nft (8).
+Existing setups should migrate to
+.BR nft (8)
+when possible. See
+.UR https://red.ht/nft_your_tables
+.UE
+for details.
.PP
.B xtables-monitor
is used to monitor changes to the ruleset or to show rule evaluation events
--
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