Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVpn - Fedora Core 3 rpm

[James Y. <ji...@yo...>]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Florin Andrei wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 21:44 +0100, Johan Kumps wrote:
> > 
> > I'm currently using OpenVPN in a Windows XP environment. I now have to move
> > the VPN server side to a machine running Fedore Core 3.
> > Where can I find the rpm files needed and an installation guide?
> 
> Download the openvpn tarball then do a "rpmbuild -ta" on it.
> But you need lzo beforehand. freshrpms.net has good lzo packages. Get
> and install them, then build and install the openvpn package.
> 
> Jim, there are many users like Johan asking for RPMS - would it be
> possible, please, to make a more prominent note on the site somewhere
> that it's possible to generate the packages straight out of the tarball?
> Maybe a note on the download page or something (e.g. "don't look for
> RPMs, just do a rpmbuild -ta on the tarball; lzo is a prerequisite for
> that").

It's there, in both the HOWTO and INSTALL files, though the idea of 
putting it on the download page as well is interesting.

The problem with the rpmbuild approach is that you need the -devel
versions of the some of the packages as well.  I'm thinking with 2.0 final
around the corner, it might make sense to put some binary RPMs on the
website (including the LZO RPMs) for SuSE, RH, and FC.

James