Bug 373635

Summary:	net-dialup/ppp: add postinst message for break compatibility with dependent packages
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Marcel Pennewiß <gentoo>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Dialup Developers <net-dialup>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Marcel Pennewiß 2011-06-30 19:20:56 UTC

After upgrading ppp from 2.4.4 to 2.4.5 the package net-dialup/pptpd had compatibility problems caused by checking current ppp-version-string. so pptpd didn't work:

pptpd[972]: CTRL: Starting call (launching pppd, opening GRE)
pppd[973]: Plugin /usr/lib/pptpd/pptpd-logwtmp.so is for pppd version 2.4.4, this is 2.4.5
pptpd[972]: GRE: read(fd=6,buffer=8058640,len=8196) from PTY failed: status = -1 error = Input/output error, usually caused by unexpected termination of pppd, check option syntax and pppd logs

re-emerging (and restart) pptpd fixes the problem.

we should add a postinst message to the ebuild after upgrade.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Sergey Popov gentoo-dev

2014-01-20 13:43:18 UTC

I am planning to fix this by adding subslot operator where this is needed.

Comment 2 Sergey Popov gentoo-dev

2014-06-02 13:39:00 UTC

This is fixed in 2.4.6 ebuild by adding sub-slot operator