Hi, On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:23:03AM -0700, Micah Morton wrote: > From 557d2e73bf21ddb9d07b43f716c7914d610e7392 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Micah Morton <mort...@chromium.org> > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 09:55:22 -0700 > Subject: [PATCH] Specify platform and version on command line. > > Add --iv-plat and --iv-plat-rel command line args, and use the values > passed to these args to set IV_PLAT and IV_PLAT_REL info that is pushed > to the server. > > IV_PLAT (platform type) is normally inferred from the build target, but > it would be useful to be able to override this from the command line > (e.g. for client to set platform as ChromeOS instead of Linux). > > IV_PLAT_REL (platform release version) would allow for pushing the > platform (e.g. ChromeOS) release version to the server.
I'm actually less than enthusiastic about "yay, two more special-case
options for OpenVPN" - and even less so to options that enable users
to override a fairly well-defined meaning of IV_PLAT with an arbitrary
string. Even if it's ChromeOS, compiled with #define TARGET_LINUX,
IV_PLAT should reflect that.
There is already "--setenv UV_anykey=value" to send arbitrary strings
to the server, and in particular, IV_PLAT_VER can already be set by
"--setenv IV_PLAT_VER=<version>".
There's one catch to this, though - for some reason that escapes me right
now we have decided that IV_PLAT_VER= and the UV_ user-defined strings
are only sent if --push-peer-info is also configured on the client
(while IV_GUI_VER, also settable with --setenv, is always sent).
So we might want to revisit that decision.
gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany g...@greenie.muc.de
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