Re: Building an RPM package for pptp

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 15:15 +0000, Keith Sudbury wrote:
> 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?

They ship 0.6.x; Fedora 8 and 9 ship 0.7 snapshots.

Dan