Christian Hesse <list@eworm.de> on Sat, 2016/11/26 13:38:
Hello everybody,
a new OpenVPN stable release is being prepared, namely version 2.4.0. Currently we have 2.4_beta2. I think about making changes to our package that require user intervention.
We have 2.4_rc1 as of today.
We shipped a systemd unit file before OpenVPN upstream had one. Upstream now has unit files, but two (for server and client) instead of just one. I did backport some security features for our unit, but refused to migrate to the upstream solution within the 2.3.x branch.
That could change with 2.4.0. Instead of openvpn@.service we would have openvpn-server@.service and openvpn-client@.service. Additionally the 'daemon' option is no longer allowed with the upstream units.
Some news about this... I prepared patched for proper systemd support which already have been committed to the upstream repository. So we have: * proper error handling (and service ordering) * option "daemon" is just ignored when started from systemd unit - so no more limitations here We will see the shiny new systemd units in our package.
Stumbled about another fact... We define PLUGIN_LIBDIR, that allows to use relative paths from that directory in configuration to call the plugins. This path is '/usr/lib/openvpn' - plugins are installed to '/usr/lib/openvpn/plugins', though. Any reason for that?
This will change... So extra 'plugins/' has to be removed from relative paths in configuration. I built packages for 2.4_rc1 to give a preview... Feel free to test! ;) http://pkgbuild.com/~eworm/openvpn/openvpn-2.4_rc1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz http://pkgbuild.com/~eworm/openvpn/openvpn-2.4_rc1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz The news post will look something like this: <snip> The upgrade to openvpn 2.4.0 makes changes that are incompatible with previous configurations. Take special care if you depend on VPN connectivity for remote access! Administrative interaction is required: * Configuration is expected in sub directories now. Move your files from `/etc/openvpn/` to `/etc/openvpn/server/` or `/etc/openvpn/client/`. * The plugin lookup path changed, remove extra `plugins/` from relative paths. * The systemd unit `openvpn@.service` was replaced with `openvpn-client@.service` and `openvpn-server@.service`. Restart and reenable accordingly. This does not affect the functionality of `networkmanager`, `connman` or `qopenvpn`. </snip> -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Best regards my address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* Chris cc -ox -xc - && ./x */b/42*2-3)*42);}