Re: Review Request: pptp

[Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>]

Matthias Saou wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote :
>
>
> > Spec file:
> > http://www.city-fan.org/~paul/extras/pptp/pptp.spec
>
>
> Nice and clean spec file :-)
>
>
> > SRPM:
> > http://www.city-fan.org/~paul/extras/pptp/pptp-1.6.0-2.fc3.src.rpm
>
>
> Rebuilds fine for me, and I can't see any obvious problems. I'm unable to
> fully test the functionalities, but am willing to approve the package for
> an initial import nevertheless.
>
> Looking at the homepage and install instructions that :
> 1) Once again there is a kernel module that could be added...

Matt Domsch at Dell is working on getting the ppp_mppe module included 
in the upstream kernel. It's a long process though. A possible problem 
with providing a separate package for this module is that it requires 
patching (and hence replacing) the existing ppp_generic module. I don't 
know what the best way of doing that is. My intention was to wait for 
the module to appear upstream.

> 2) There are some nice config tools (in php-gtk!?) which could also
>    be packaged :-)

I already do the packages on the website there, and could import those 
in extras. However, as far as I know, php-gtk currently requires PHP4 
(compiled with pcntl support, which is not included in FC3). It really 
would be better if it could be ported to something a bit more modern 
like PyGTK. Unfortunately that's beyond my abilities.

Paul.