Re: NetworkManager-openvpn-0.9.8.4 and gnome-keyring

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 10:27 +0000, John Frankish wrote:
> > > The configure script for NetworkManager-openvpn-0.9.8.4 looks for
> > > gnome-keyring-1.pc, which is not present in gnome-keyring-3.10.1
> > >
> > > Is this mean to be compiled with ''--without-gnome" for gnome-3?
> >
> > Which Linux distro do you have?  The development headers are often
> > shipped in sub-packages, like "gnome-keyring-devel" or "gnome-keyring-
> > dev".  It may also be named "gnome-keyring-libs-devel" or "gnome-keyring-
> > libs-dev".  Does your distro have any packages like that?
> I compiled Gnome-keyring-3.10.1 from source - it looks like the source package no longer installs 
> gnome-keyring-1.pc since about gnome-keyring-3.4.x?
>
> The only libs installed are:
>
> /usr/local/lib/gnome-keyring/devel/gkm-gnome2-store-standalone.so
> /usr/local/lib/gnome-keyring/devel/gkm-secret-store-standalone.so
> /usr/local/lib/gnome-keyring/devel/gkm-ssh-store-standalone.so
> /usr/local/lib/gnome-keyring/devel/gkm-xdg-store-standalone.so
> /usr/local/lib/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so
> /usr/local/lib/security/pam_gnome_keyring.so
>
> ..so perhaps this makes sense?

I think I know the issue.  Upstream GNOME switched to "libsecret", which
network-manager-openvpn was not ported to use.  We'll have to fix that
in the NM-openvpn 0.9.8.x branch, it was already fixed in git master.

So the short answer is it's not going to work right now, but should
soon.

Dan