Re: NetworkManager-novellvpn

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 11:07 +0200, Matěj Cepl wrote:
> Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 11:11 -0300, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo wrote:
> > Not that I know of.  Despite repeated proddings of the Novell guys, they
> > have never bothered to upstream the code.  Second, is 'nvpn' even
> > open-source?  If it's not, it's pretty pointless to including a package
> > in Fedora that is useless without a closed-source binary.
> 
> 'nvpn' is a client or server? If server, they I wouldn't know about VPN
> which we support in Fedora even though we have no server part.

It's a binary that the NetworkManager-novellvpn package executes to
start the vpn connection.  NM-novellvpn does not seem to include nvpn,
so it must be some external program.

See src/nm-novellvpn-service.c :: nm_novellvpn_start_novellvpn_binary().

I assume there's a novellvpn package in OpenSUSE somewhere.  Obviously
adding that package (if it's open-source) to Fedora would be a
prerequisite to adding NetworkManager-novellvpn.

Dan