Sven Köhler wrote: >at the moment, /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.2/rp-pppoe.so is installed by >net-dialup/ppp - nothing special - well, it's not a very recent version. >In the syslog it says: > >RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.3 compiled against pppd 2.4.2 > >On the other hand, i've got net-dialup/rp-pppoe-3.8 installed and it >installs a symlink: > >/etc/ppp/plugins/rp-pppoe.so -> /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.2/rp-pppoe.so > >Is this symlink needed? And why is it installed by rp-pppoe? >(And is the /etc/ppp/plugins dir needed at all? What do plugins do in >/etc/ppp/plugins? Don't they belong to /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.2/ ?) > > That is the place where pppoe-server search for the plugin. Btw, the PPPoE server is the only useful part of net-dialup/rp-pppoe from Gentoo pov, the client part being surclassed by the generic pppd.sh net module available in baselayout-1.12*.
> >Well, yet another question: >ppp-2.4.2 now includes the rp-pppoe.so plugins from rp-pppoe - do the >ppp-people maintain that module by themselfs now? Or do they just >download the plugin from the rp-pppoe-people and include it in their >sources? I can imagine a ppp-ebuild that downloads a more recent version >of rp-pppoe and builds the rp-pppoe.so-plugins directly from the >rp-pppoe sources instead of using the ppp-sources. > > rp-pppoe plugin had been within ppp tarball for quite some time (see for how long from upstream cvsweb at http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ppp/pppd/plugins/rp-pppoe/). It has been contributed by RoaringPenguin but from that day on, it has been maintained by Paul MacKerras (the ppp upstream). Maybe is just me, but I consider ppp to be the upstream when it comes to rp-pppoe pppd's plugin. I don't care that 3.3 < 3.8 since the actual rp-pppoe plugin is a modified version of the one original. Unless someone finds a bug or a new feature that needs to be implemented in rp-pppoe plugin (which I very much doubt it), I will change nothing (and even then, I will prefer to patch the ppp sources).
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