On 11/01/16 09:48, Samuli Seppänen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There is a pull request in GitHub to openvpn-build, which disables 
> auth_pam plugin by default:
> 
> <https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-build/pull/10/files>
> 
> For Windows this makes sense, as PAM is not present. However, 
> openvpn-build can also be used to cross-compile for the ARM 
> architecture, in which case PAM might be useful.
> 
> Does the pull request makes sense, or should we just fix this with 
> better documentation, e.g.
> 
> "If you're cross-compiling for ARM, make sure you add 
> --disable-plugin-auth-pam to EXTRA_OPENVPN_CONFIG"
> 
> Thoughts?

You'll most likely upset quite some Linux distro maintainers.
Especially if such a change is not properly communicated.

I know at least RPM packaging will start failing when it detects that
files expected to be installed by 'make install' is missing.  Other
packaging systems may behave differently.


-- 
kind regards,

David Sommerseth

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