Bug 270657 – net-dialup/pptpclient version bump to 1.7.2

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Johan 2009-05-21 06:12:29 UTC]

I was corresponding with the pptp-devel list about a problem I had, and they wanted me to forward that the current version of pptpclient in portage is to old. It should be version 1.7.2 and it would be a good idea to patch it with the replacedefaultroute patch used by Debian and Ubuntu.
 



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.pptp --version 
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
ellen ~ # pptp --version 
pptp version 1.7.1

Expected Results:  
pptp version 1.7.2

[Comment 1 Johan 2009-05-21 18:00:11 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I was corresponding with the pptp-devel list about a problem I had, and they
> wanted me to forward that the current version of pptpclient in portage is to
> old. It should be version 1.7.2 and it would be a good idea to patch it with
> the replacedefaultroute patch used by Debian and Ubuntu.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.pptp --version 
> 2.
> 3.
> 
> Actual Results:  
> ellen ~ # pptp --version 
> pptp version 1.7.1
> 
> Expected Results:  
> pptp version 1.7.2
> 

Sorry, it's the pppd package that should be patched...

[Comment 2 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2009-06-20 09:05:05 UTC]

pptpclient version has been bumped.

As for replacedefaultroute pppd patch, we solved in a different way in Gentoo. We've added the defaultmetric pppd parameter (see pppd man page) and I dare to say our solution is technically superior to the one that was promoted by SuSe.