Bug 330893 – Missing strings command for pptpsetup

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Nicholas Fiorentini 2010-08-02 19:02:57 UTC]

Hi,
I'm running the minimal x86 2010 install CD and I have to connect using pptpsetup. The command fail due to a missing "strings" command. This command is called in the pptpsetup script in order to check MMPE.

Workaround: comments the lines where the "strings" command is called (and make sure the function returns 1, MPPE is correct loaded by the minimal gentoo).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run pptpconfig on a network with MMPE authentication.

Actual Results:  
Program failure with the error:
"sh: strings command not found
pptpsetup couldn't find MPPE support in pppd."

Expected Results:  
Correct execution of the command and connection.

[Comment 1 Nicholas Fiorentini 2010-08-02 19:04:23 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Steps to Reproduce:
> pptpsetup couldn't find MPPE support in pppd."

isn't pptpsetup but pptpconfig ;)

[Comment 2 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2011-05-13 21:27:19 UTC]

This seems to be a missing dep.

[Comment 3 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2011-10-24 16:45:49 UTC]

@net-dialup:

Can you please comment on this bug?

[Comment 4 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2011-10-24 17:10:41 UTC]

Jorge actually I'm unsure how to fix this and I'm open to suggestions. Yes, pptpsetup has 
strings `which pppd`|grep -i mppe|wc --lines
command and thus uses strings. But strings comes from binutils and thus normally it exits on user systems:

tablet ~ # qfile strings
sys-devel/binutils (/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/binutils-bin/2.21.1/strings)
tablet ~ # ls -la /usr/bin/strings
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Сен 29 16:38 /usr/bin/strings -> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-strings

I can put DEPEND on binutils, but I remember catalyst somehow cleans binutils. Am I correct? Will RDEPEND on binutils fix this issue? Or ... may be livecd should create strings symlink and use strings from busybox?

[Comment 5 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2011-10-24 18:01:36 UTC]

Thanks to Peter's pointer, I was able to trace the issue to the specs dropping the strings symlink[1] (line 298) and the binutils symlinks (line 301).

 [1] - http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/releng/trunk/releases/weekly/specs/amd64/installcd-stage2-minimal.spec?revision=796&view=markup

Unless someone can present a good reason not to, I'd suggest we stop dropping the symlinks.

[Comment 6 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2011-11-07 01:02:07 UTC]

This should now be fixed after updating the specs to stop dropping binutils. Please test the new CDs that will be built this week or test the latest admincd[1].

 [1] - http://www.jmbsvicetto.name/releases/amd64/hardened/20111106/admincd-amd64-20111106.iso

[Comment 7 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2012-05-28 17:12:41 UTC]

I've confirmed strings is present in the last CDs.