Re: Building an RPM package for pptp

[Keith Sudbury <keith netzensolutions com>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 14:23 +0000, Keith Sudbury wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > Are there any current RPM's for the pptp plugin? I am running Fedora 8, 
> > I know Ubuntu has a package for this.
> >
> > If not I am looking into building an rpm for this, is it possible to 
> > just get the source for the pptp plugin? I don't really want to have to 
> > package NetworkManager again... I have noticed there are other plugins 
> > in fedora like openvpn etc so they must have managed to just install the 
> > plugin?
> >
> > I guess I will need to find a way to get access the src for just the 
> > pptp plugin.
> >     
>
> The PPTP plugin doesn't currently build, I don't think.  It never quite
> got updated for the API changes in 0.7 because there wasn't a lot of
> interest.  Part of the issue is that it should ideally share the PPP
> management code with NetworkManager itself, but it could just suck in a
> copy for now or use it's own.  SVN trunk pptp isn't going to compile at
> this time, unfortunately.
>
> Dan
>
>
>   
Really, how does Ubuntu get pptp working with NM?

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