Update Wireshark from 4.0.2 to 4.6.9 #3471
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4.6.9 is the latest stable release; 4.7.x is the development series.
The tarball’s SHA256 matches upstream’s SIGNATURES-4.6.9.txt:
d062d416a1ab3a49975aafe3a671c882dde0562ccd71b078808ceb59d465fc0f
The AUTH_MARIUX patch no longer applies:
$ patch -p1 --dry-run < /src/mariux/patches/wireshark-add-auth-mariux
checking file epan/dissectors/packet-rpc.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 106 with fuzz 2 (offset 7 lines).
Hunk #2 FAILED at 1285.
Hunk #3 succeeded at 1412 with fuzz 1 (offset 2 lines).
1 out of 3 hunks FAILED
checking file epan/dissectors/packet-rpc.h
Hunk #1 FAILED at 30.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED
Upstream added AUTH_TLS (7) next to it, and dissect_rpc_authunix_cred()
now takes pinfo. Flavor 8 is still unassigned, so use the same patch,
rebased onto 4.6.9, as wireshark-4.6.9-add-auth-mariux.patch, which
is mirrored on beehive.
Wireshark renamed the CMake option USE_QT6 to USE_qt6, and CMake only
lists the old, now unused name under “Manually-specified variables were
not used” at the end of its output, so a plain version bump would
quietly switch to Qt6. Spell it the new way to keep building with Qt5.
Assisted-by: claude-opus-5.5 (Claude Code)
Wireshark 4.6 prefers Qt6 (USE_qt6 defaults to ON) and deprecates Qt5:
CMake Deprecation Warning at CMakeLists.txt:1424 (message):
Support for building with Qt5 will be removed in the future.
/usr/local/qt6 (qt6-6.9.1) has all modules Wireshark needs, Core5Compat,
LinguistTools, Multimedia and DBus included, and CopyQ already builds
against it. Drop the Qt5 pin from Wireshark 4.0.2 and point CMake at Qt6.
Assisted-by: claude-opus-5.5 (Claude Code)
Wireshark 4.0.2 installed its headers and wireshark.pc with
`make install`. Wireshark 4.6.9 puts them, and the CMake package files,
into the install component Development, marked EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL, so
the package lost them:
$ tar -xjf wireshark-4.6.9-0.x86_64.bee.tar.bz2 -C pkg
$ PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=pkg/usr/lib/pkgconfig pkg-config --modversion wireshark
Package wireshark was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `wireshark.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'wireshark' found
Install that component in addition, so that dissector plugins and other
programs can still be built against libwireshark. The package now ships
675 headers below /usr/include/wireshark, /usr/lib/pkgconfig/wireshark.pc
and /usr/lib/cmake/wireshark/. A test program calling
epan_get_version() builds with pkg-config as well as with CMake’s
find_package(Wireshark 4.6), and prints 4.6.9.
The new wireshark.pc also no longer has the doubled libdir of 4.0.2’s
(libdir=${exec_prefix}//usr/lib).
Assisted-by: claude-opus-5.5 (Claude Code)
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