there is an nvcables project on sourceforge that includes to scripts to connect and disconnect from the net using a cable pptp connection. i created an nvcables-gentoo project on sourcefroge that had a gentoo based init script to connect and disconnect from the net on a cable pptp connection based on the nvcables project. http://sourceforge.net/projects/nvcables-gentoo/ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 31135 [details] nvcable-gentoo-0.1.ebuild (new ebuild) initial version
i finished nvcables-gentoo-0.2, uploading the ebuild.
ok just renaming the name of the ebuild to -0.2 is enouge no need to upload
ok version 0.2.1 came out fixes the error handling issues
Created attachment 32484 [details] nvcables-gentoo-0.2.1.ebuild (new ebuild) new version, fixes error handling issues
Created attachment 35045 [details] nvcable-gentoo-0.3.ebuild (new ebuild) a new version, fixes some bugs, works very nicely now.
Aren't this a little extreme? An ebuild for a simple script? Is anyone interested in this, besides the reporter of this bug of course? I would mark this bug as WONTFIX if I could.
it think so too, maybe we can add this functionality to the pptpd package?
I intended to post a patch for pptpclient but this script isn't pretty: - lack of proper indentation - use of old tools (route) instead of the new ones (ip) - go beyond the scope of a PPTP link (the other party is assumed to be the original default gateway) - inexplicable sleeps - the tarball contains an executable pptp; I cannot understand why do we need to download an additional garbage - the executable is more than 95% of the package. Resuming, doesn't deserve it's bandwidth.
rejected for the reasons exposed at comment #9
hiya i added the pptp client program because the original package of nvstart has it but i'll remove it. besides that i'll move to iproute2 and fix the ebuild and upload it again
