This will not work for freebsd.  This is what the ports tree is for.

Eric


On Jul 1, 2010, at 09:59:51, Till Maas wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:00:49PM +0300, Samuli Seppänen wrote:
> 
>> - write packaging instructions to our Trac wiki
>> (https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki)
>> - convert the instructions into BuildBot code (BuildSteps)
>> 
>> After this is done, we can provide the latest version of OpenVPN for
>> various platforms with minimal manual effort. This helps developers as
>> well as users: having the development code in wider circulation helps
>> spot problems faster resulting in faster release cycle.
> 
> I am a Fedora package maintainer, but not one of OpenVPN. I CC'ed them
> in case they did not notice this.
> 
> The Fedora package scripts are currently available here:
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/openvpn/devel/
> 
> In the not so far future this URL will not be valid, because Fedora
> switches to git.
> 
> Packages for Fedora are usually build within a chroot using a helper
> tool called mock[0] and I do not know how well it works on other
> distributions except Fedora or RHEL/CentOS. There are also scripts
> developed to easily build new rpms from SCM and afaik currently only git
> is supported (I do not know what OpenVPN currently uses, but I suspect
> it's SVN):
> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-packager/ticket/8
> 
> Adding support for SVN or other SCMs should not be that hard. I will try
> to write something up how to put all this together to easily build new
> OpenVPN Packages for Fedora using a SCM checkout.
> 
> Regards
> Till
> 
> [0] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects/Mock
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