Bug 61725 – ppp package should include the radius plugin

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jeffrey Crawford 2004-08-25 21:27:35 UTC]

I am often setting up vpn connections and having the radius plugin preinstalled on the ppp package would make my life easier.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge ppp does not include radius plugin
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
I can manually suspend the emerge to include the radius patch

[Comment 1 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-09-27 03:49:51 UTC]

it's included in ppp-2.4.2

[Comment 2 Mike Nerone 2005-05-17 11:59:00 UTC]

Could you put this into the ~arch ebuilds also? The current situation forces us
to choose between mppe-mppc (only available in ~arch) and radius (only available
in stable). Can't have both without rolling our own ebuild.

[Comment 3 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-05-17 12:54:36 UTC]

there are currently only 2 versions of net-dialup/ppp: 2.4.2-r10 and 2.4.3-r3

both versions have :
  - mppe-mppc USE flag
  - radius plugins

[Comment 4 Mike Nerone 2005-05-17 12:58:06 UTC]

I just realized the plugin is actually present. It's only the bundled
radiusclient that doesn't get installed. I think it's statically linked during
the build, so I assume it would actually work, but the ebuild doesn't put in its
config directory (/etc/radiusclient). I'll just copy that over from the source
myself, which will probably be fine, but it's still not an optimal situation
that the plugin is compiled but the configuration files are omitted.

Ideally (IMHO), the radiusclient ebuild would just be a dependency, as I suggest
in bug #92878, but one way or the other, I think this should be fixed.

I will open a separate bug for it (with nearly the same text).