Request for review: openvpn

[Steven Pritchard]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 12:58:22AM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Create %{_localstatedir}/run/openvpn/ with the RPM and not by init
> script run.

I'm surprised I missed that...

> I have some wishes:
> 1) Don't make --enable-pthread active for stable FC3 / FC4 builds, only
> development, due to it's experimental state.

I've had it enabled in my builds for months with no problems.

> 2) Let us make some compile options selectable, like
> --enable-password-save or --disable-lzo.

Is it really worth it?

> 3) Check for init script to be made more Fedora style. Using
> /etc/sysconfig/openvpn for default settings like user / group the tunnel
> runs under. Let a user kill or restart the tunnel running under his own
> uid/gid (useful for OpenVPN client tunnels).

The init script is eventually going to have to be dropped or
completely rewritten.  At some point I want openvpn to start like any
other network interface.

> 4) Compilation agains lzo2 could be prepared for very soon to be
> released OpenVPN 2.0.1. lzo2 will be in Extras, I got approval. It
> offers encryption speed improvements on x86_64 arch.

That's another reason I really want the package as-is released.  I'd
like to switch devel over to 2.0.1_rc(whatever) and keep FC-3 and FC-4
on 2.0 for now.

Steve
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