What happened to RPPPPoEK?

der Mosher · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 4:41 pm Post subject: What happened to RPPPPoEK?

I've recently set up a new PC and noticed that RPPPPoEK is missing from the portage tree. Gladly I had the ebuild on my main PC and was able to find a required patch somewhere in the depth of Google's cache. As the source code is still available for download I wonder why the package has been removed. Does anyone know more?

-- René
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the_mgt · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 4:48 pm Post subject:

Hi!
I think it is, because with the new baselayouts, adsl is configured by the /etc/conf.d/net script.
This seems to cause some problems if you only have one NIC for ppp and lan....

If you have two network cards in your pc, it should work fine. Just search here in the forum or look at a gentoo howto about the baselayout.

der Mosher · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:43 pm Post subject:

Hmm, RPPPPoEK is basically a wrapper for the adsl-start and -stop scripts. According to the setup instructions under http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=3 these are still configured via adsl-setup so there shouldn't be a conflict to baselayout. And if there is, RP-PPPoE is the offending package, not RPPPPoEK.
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cyberpatrol · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:41 am Post subject:

I guess here's the reason why RPPPPoEK isn't in the portage tree anymore:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66053

Unfortunately it seems to be unmaintained by the author.

Cintra · Advocate Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 2111 Location: Norway

Pity no one could take the trouble, its a neat little icon that simplifies adsl start & stop.
Glad I kept a copy in /usr/local/portage.. it works fine here.
Mvh
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der Mosher · Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 6:40 am Post subject:

That's really a shame. I tried the alternative knet / kdialup, but couldn't get it to work reasonably. Is there any other program that can do the job, maybe something like SuSE's kinternet that also works with modems and ISDN?

Cintra · Advocate Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 2111 Location: Norway

there's a copy of the ebuild at http://m2.uh.cz/pub/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/net-dialup/rppppoek/rppppoek-0.33.ebuild
mvh
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cyberpatrol · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:19 am Post subject:

Thank you, Cintra, for the URL to the ebuild.

The rppppoek-0.33-panelicon.patch can be found at http://m2.uh.cz/pub/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/net-dialup/rppppoek/files/rppppoek-0.33-panelicon.patch

der Mosher · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:23 pm Post subject:

I've updated the ebuild, see bug 120348:

remove dependency from arts
make it work with rp-pppoe-3.6

The original panelicon patch is also attached to the bug report, in case it vanishes from Google's cache someday.
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toralf · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:17 am Post subject:

der Mosher · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 4:45 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the kind words!

Your wish is already mentioned in my TODO list (see /usr/share/docs/rppppoek-0.40/TODO.gz). As soon as I figure out how to do it with autotools, I'll implement it.
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der Mosher · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:38 pm Post subject:

In case there are still a few people running RP-PPPoE 3.5, I will adjust the script rppppoek.sh to work with both the old and the new versions (no autotools magic, no need to recompile after a change of RP-PPPoE). Stay tuned for an update.

Edit: According to Alin Nastac, RP-PPPoE 3.7 will be made a requirement and soon be stable.
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