Build Firewall Builder 'FWbuilder' 5.1.0 for Fedora 17

Howdy, FirewallBuilder released version 5.1.0 without providing an officially built rpm for Fedora 17. This post will build an rpm for Fedora 17 using the src rpm for Fedora 16 If you need help configuring the rpmbuild environment, start here. First, download the fwbuilder-5.1.0.3599-1.fc16.src.rpm file to your local directory. Next, extract the src.rpm

$ cd ~/tmp/fwbuilder
$ rpm2cpio fwbuilder-5.1.0.3599-1.fc16.src.rpm | cpio -idvm
$ mv fwbuilder-5.1.0.3599.tar.gz ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
$ mv fwbuilder-5.1.0.3599.spec ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/

A patch file is required due to the following build error:

../fwbuilder/uint128.h: In member function 'std::string uint128::to_string() const':
../fwbuilder/uint128.h:469:95: warning: format '%lX' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'long long unsigned int' [-Wformat]
../fwbuilder/uint128.h:469:95: warning: format '%lX' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'long long unsigned int' [-Wformat]
../fwbuilder/uint128.h:471:58: warning: format '%lX' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'long long unsigned int' [-Wformat]
In file included from ThreadTools.cpp:31:0:
../fwbuilder/ThreadTools.h:168:5: error: 'ssize_t' does not name a type
ThreadTools.cpp:182:82: error: no 'ssize_t libfwbuilder::TimeoutCounter::read(int, void*, size_t) const' member function declared in class 'libfwbuilder::TimeoutCounter'
make[4]: *** [.obj/ThreadTools.o] Error 1

The patch was built using the following diff (patch credit debian bug 674349)

$ diff -u src/libfwbuilder/src/fwbuilder/ThreadTools.h.orig src/libfwbuilder/src/fwbuilder/ThreadTools.h > ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/fwbuilder-5.1.0.3599.ssize_t.patch

--- src/libfwbuilder/src/fwbuilder/ThreadTools.h.orig 2012-06-20 11:31:12.029364056 -0500
+++ src/libfwbuilder/src/fwbuilder/ThreadTools.h 2012-06-20 11:09:36.000000000 -0500
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 
 #include  //for time_t definition
 #include 
+#include 
 
 #include 
 #include 

Either run through the diff to generate the patch file or copy and paste the above diff into the new patch file ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/fwbuilder-5.1.0.3599.ssize_t.patch Now edit the fwbuilder-5.1.0.3599.spec file to include the new patch file

--- fwbuilder-5.1.0.3599.spec.orig 2012-03-22 04:17:55.000000000 -0500
+++ fwbuilder-5.1.0.3599.spec 2012-06-20 11:51:09.901734348 -0500
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 Group:          %{guigroup}
 Url:            http://www.fwbuilder.org/
 Source:         http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fwbuilder/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch1:         fwbuilder-5.1.0.3599.ssize_t.patch
 Packager:       Vadim Kurland 
 
 Buildroot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@
 
 %prep
 %setup 
+%patch1 -p0
 ./autogen.sh
 
 %build

Then run the build

$ cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
$ rpmbuild -ba fwbuilder-5.1.0.3599.spec

The result is the rpm containing

$ rpm -qpl ../RPMS/x86_64/fwbuilder-5.1.0.3599-1.fc17.uabeng.x86_64.rpm |more
/usr/bin/fwb_iosacl
/usr/bin/fwb_ipf
/usr/bin/fwb_ipfw
/usr/bin/fwb_ipt
/usr/bin/fwb_pf
/usr/bin/fwb_pix
/usr/bin/fwb_procurve_acl
/usr/bin/fwbedit
/usr/bin/fwbuilder
/usr/share/applications/fwbuilder.desktop
/usr/share/doc/fwbuilder-5.1.0.3599
...

Install the rpm using yum

$ sudo yum install ../RPMS/x86_64/fwbuilder-5.1.0.3599-1.fc17.uabeng.x86_64.rpm 
Loaded plugins: fs-snapshot, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Examining ../RPMS/x86_64/fwbuilder-5.1.0.3599-1.fc17.uabeng.x86_64.rpm: fwbuilder-5.1.0.3599-1.fc17.uabeng.x86_64
Marking ../RPMS/x86_64/fwbuilder-5.1.0.3599-1.fc17.uabeng.x86_64.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package fwbuilder.x86_64 0:5.1.0.3599-1.fc17.uabeng will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=====================================================================================================================
 Package         Arch         Version                         Repository                                        Size
=====================================================================================================================
Installing:
 fwbuilder       x86_64       5.1.0.3599-1.fc17.uabeng        /fwbuilder-5.1.0.3599-1.fc17.uabeng.x86_64        36 M

Transaction Summary
=====================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Hope this helps other FC17 FWbuilder users out there!