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# network.stack -- wired and wireless networking, for a SysV system.
# stack-version: 1.14.320
#
# WHAT THIS MACHINE NEVER BUILDS is in avoid.stack, included by every stack
# here: the exclusions are a property of the machine, not of one stack.
# Without it a dependency plan walks into systemd, qt6, cups and texlive.
include avoid

#
# The sway stack builds a desktop; nothing in it brings up a network.  This is
# what `wifi` (wpa_cli / wpa_supplicant / ifup) needs, plus a firewall.
#
#   packagemanager stack network --check-refs     # verify before building
#   packagemanager stack network --yes --run
#
# Every entry here is a BLFS package, checked against the book.

# THE SYSTEM ACCOUNTS THIS MACHINE NEEDS, DECLARED ONCE.
#
# A package user cannot create an account, so every book "Configuring"
# section that says `useradd` is refused and recorded -- correctly, and then
# somebody types it from the failure box hours later, from memory, with the
# uid it happened to suggest.  accounts.conf is where they are written down
# instead, and this step creates them BEFORE the package that wants them.
cfg    accounts

book   libnl                    # netlink, what wpa_supplicant talks to the kernel with
book   wpa_supplicant           # wpa_supplicant, wpa_cli, wpa_passphrase
book   wireless_tools           # iwconfig/iwlist, if you want them

book   libmnl                   # minimal netlink library; libnftnl needs it

# libnftnl is NOT a BLFS package -- the nf_tables netlink API that the nft
# backend of iptables is built on.  Version 1.3.2 is what netfilter.org's
# own news page lists as current (released 2026-08-31); check the tarball
# against the .sha256 beside it before trusting this line, and bump it when
# upstream moves -- `--check-refs` asks git remotes and cannot see a tar url.
tar    libnftnl url=https://www.netfilter.org/pub/libnftnl/libnftnl-1.3.2.tar.xz pkg=libnftnl-1.3.2.tar.xz have=/usr/lib/libnftnl.so build="./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static; make" install="make install"

# THE BOOK DISABLES NFTABLES; THIS MACHINE'S KERNEL HAS NOTHING ELSE.
#
# BLFS configures iptables with --disable-nftables, so you get the legacy
# binaries only -- and a kernel built without CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES answers
#     modprobe: FATAL: Module ip_tables not found
#     iptables: can't initialize iptables table `filter'
# for every rule.  `[iptables] configure_args = --enable-nftables` in
# machine.conf fixes it (the merge drops the book's --disable-nftables when
# it adds the opposite), and the probe makes sure: with nftables support
# `iptables --version` says (nf_tables), without it (legacy).
book   iptables expect="test -x /usr/sbin/xtables-nft-multi"

# ...AND THEN SWITCH TO IT.  `--enable-nftables` builds both backends and
# upstream's install leaves the plain names on the legacy one, so
# `iptables --version` still says (legacy) after a build whose log says
# "nftables support: yes".  This step points iptables/ip6tables and their
# save/restore at xtables-nft-multi, and the probe checks the result rather
# than the build.
cfg    iptables-nft                 # nft backend, via machine.conf (see below)

book   net-tools                # ifconfig, route, netstat

# THE ADDRESS HAS TO COME FROM SOMEWHERE.  `lfs config network dhcp` writes
# no static interface files on purpose and says a DHCP client comes from BLFS
# afterwards -- and this stack did not have one, so a joined wireless link sat
# there with no address and `ifup` had no service to hand off to.
book   dhcpcd                   # the DHCP client; SERVICE=dhcpcd in ifconfig.*

# openssh lives HERE, not in services.stack and not anywhere near sway: it
# is networking.  Its bootscript comes from blfs-bootscripts
# (install-sshd), which the services stack installs afterwards -- so sshd is
# startable once both stacks have run, and `expect` below checks only what
# this entry can be responsible for.
book   openssh expect="test -x /usr/sbin/sshd"

check  net-wifi                 # what is still missing to bring a link up

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# iptables-nft
#
# The book's iptables page configures --disable-nftables, so the flag has to
# come from machine.conf.  The shipped stacks/machine.conf carries it:
#
#       [iptables]
#       configure_args = --enable-nftables
#
# Your /etc/pkgusr/stacks/machine.conf is never overwritten (1.14.58), so if
# it predates this, take that section from machine.conf.new beside it.
#
# The legacy backend is being retired upstream; iptables-nft keeps the
# familiar rule syntax on top of nf_tables.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------