Bug 504942 – net-misc/strongswan missing USE flags for plugins

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Enrico Tagliavini 2014-03-18 08:37:45 UTC]

Strongswan has an horde of optional plugins, as can bee seen in [1]. Most, if not all, of them are not enabled by default. A possible solution is to add a USE flag for each plugin. An alternative can be to give a USE flag only to main plugins and hide all other behind an "extra" USE flag or something like this.

[1] http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/PluginList

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to use the (ssh-)agent plugin or unity plugin
2. Connection will fail because the plugin is missing

[Comment 1 Jason Zaman 2014-08-17 20:45:45 UTC]

Created attachment 383046 [details, diff]
patch for strongswan-5.2.0-r1.ebuild

How about something like this?

I have added a USE_EXPAND for strongswan_plugins. It works for me but I have not tested unbound (dont use it) nor padlock (I dont have the crypto processor).

[Comment 2 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) 2014-09-13 14:18:05 UTC]

Fixed in 5.2.0-r1 , thanks for helping :)

[Comment 3 Jason Zaman 2014-09-14 14:42:56 UTC]

Hi,

This has been added to the ebuild but the strongswan_plugins has not been added as a USE_EXPAND variable.
it needs to be added to profiles/base/make.defaults.

At the bottom on:
http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/

Thanks!

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2014-10-18 05:59:04 UTC]

Commit message: Add USE=gmp to control the gmp plugin
http://sources.gentoo.org/net-misc/strongswan/strongswan-5.2.0-r1.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2