On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 08:33:33PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 00:38 +0100, Jos Vos wrote: > > - Is there a technical reason to not handle OpenVPN connections this > > way in Fedora or is it just that it was decided to stay more close > > to the generic OpenVPN startup script? A combination of trying to stay close to upstream and lack of time, honestly. > > - Does anyone know of recent work in this area? I guess the example > > scripts in the thread I listed above might not work as-is with the > > current Fedora and OpenVPN versions. > > > > - Is there any interest in including (and maintaining) this in Fedora's > > OpenVPN package, maybe just as an alternative startup method, > > assuming someone wants to contribute the initial implementation? I'd be happy to include better initscript integration in the Fedora package. I just haven't had the time (or sufficient motivation) to write the code myself. > Please do. I believe it should have been a condition of the initial > review of the package. We're supposed to be making a coherent > distribution, not just packaging up a bunch of software and chucking it > together on a DVD. It was brought up at the time, but everyone was saying NetworkManager was going to take over the world, so making ifup/ifdown work didn't seem like a terribly high priority. NetworkManager-openvpn has been around for a while... Steve -- Steven Pritchard - K&S Pritchard Enterprises, Inc. Email: steve@xxxxxxxxx http://www.kspei.com/ Phone: (618)624-4440 Mobile: (618)567-7320 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
