Change Snort to always use FreeBSD-10-0 precompiled SO rules in pfSense 2.4.x releases. #471
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Snort.org distributes three versions of shared-object precompiled rules for FreeBSD. The versions are for FreeBSD 8.1, FreeBSD 9 and FreeBSD 10. The former Snort package code defaulted to the 8.1 rules (from way back when) and then tested via a uname -r call to see if FreeBSD 10 was present. That worked for older pfSense releases, but with the release of 2.4 and the new FreeBSD 11.x underlying OS, the old code would incorrectly default to FreeBSD 8.1. This change makes Snort always use the FreeBSD 10 SO rules until such time as Snort.org provides FreeBSD 11 rules.