Re: Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2012-04-10 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Robert Yes it could be possible to use it to create a ppp tunnel over ethernet but it won't be encrypted which is the main purpose of the package. // Ola On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 08:51:47PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: El 19 de març de 2012 21:30, Ola Lundqvist o...@debian.org ha escrit: Hi

Re: Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2012-03-23 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Robert MPPE is needed for pptp to work with encryption. PPTP without encryption may be useful in some very specific cases but most people would be quite confused about not having it. So I'll choose this solution until someone can confirm that MPPE works as well. Thanks for your patience with

Re: Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2012-03-20 Thread Robert Millan
El 19 de març de 2012 21:30, Ola Lundqvist o...@debian.org ha escrit: Hi After some research I have found out the following thing from a forum http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-June/090529.html http://www.mreriksson.net/howtos/netbsd-pptp-client/ which discusses how

Re: Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2012-03-19 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi After some research I have found out the following thing from a forum http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-June/090529.html http://www.mreriksson.net/howtos/netbsd-pptp-client/ which discusses how to set up pptpclient on NetBSD and there he mentioned about installing the

Re: Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2012-03-17 Thread Robert Millan
tags 648361 - moreinfo thanks Hi, We should find a solution to this before the release, as the package is available in the archive but unusable the problem is release-critical. I'm afraid I can't test PPTP, I can only confirm my patch builds succesfuly. If you're comfortable applying my patch

Re: Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2011-12-05 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Robert Millan r...@debian.org writes: 2011/11/30 Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi: ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS), kfreebsd) to the wiki or is there some drawback I should know about? It's unsuitable for upstream makefiles (Debian-specific). Ah true, I did not read the original thread

Re: Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2011-11-30 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Robert Millan r...@debian.org writes: ifneq (, $(filter FreeBSD GNU/kFreeBSD, $(UNAME))) Is this the recommended way? If yes I'll add it to the FAQ next to Sounds fine to me. But please test it first ;-) I took a quick look (all sourceformat=3 packages from a to iceweasel) at what packages

Re: Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2011-11-30 Thread Robert Millan
2011/11/30 Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi: ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS), kfreebsd) to the wiki or is there some drawback I should know about? It's unsuitable for upstream makefiles (Debian-specific). -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2011-11-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Robert Millan r...@debian.org writes: Yes. Probably better to use: ifneq (, $(filter FreeBSD GNU/kFreeBSD, $(UNAME))) Is this the recommended way? If yes I'll add it to the FAQ next to

Re: Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2011-11-14 Thread Robert Millan
[ CCing debian-bsd; if someone can test the patched version of PPTP on GNU/kFreeBSD, please do and report. Thanks! ] Hi Ola, 2011/11/13 Ola Lundqvist o...@debian.org: Have you tested to install this package and actually seen that it works in practice? The reason I ask is that as far as I know

Re: Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2011-11-14 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Robert, On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 07:14:35PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: [ CCing debian-bsd; if someone can test the patched version of PPTP on GNU/kFreeBSD, please do and report. Thanks! ] Yes that would be very welcome! Hi Ola, 2011/11/13 Ola Lundqvist o...@debian.org: Have you

Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2011-11-10 Thread Robert Millan
Package: pptp-linux Version: 1.7.2-6 Severity: grave Tags: patch User: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org Usertags: kfreebsd Hi, This package is uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64 because of its dependency on ppp. On Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, equivalent (but not CLI-compatible) functionality is provided by