Re: ppp-udeb

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 12:43:48AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:10:15AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > > [Please Cc: me, as I'm not subscribed to this mailing list.]
> > > 
> > > I plan to move the ppp package currently in experimental to unstable in
> > > about two weeks. Since the program has some new features and the build
> > > system has changed a bit, I would like to know which features should be
> > > removed from the udeb package (or even better how I can decide myself
> > > what is needed and what is superfluous).
> > > 
> > > Currently, the udeb package is compiled with this command, disabling
> > > the following features:
> > > 
> > >                 $(MAKE) COPTS=\"-DLOG_PPP=LOG_LOCAL2 \
> > >                                 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer\" \
> > >                         CHAPMS= MPPE= \
> > >                         FILTER= HAVE_MULTILINK= USE_TDB= \
> > >                         HAS_SHADOW= USE_PAM= HAVE_INET6= PLUGIN= \
> > >                         CBCP= USE_SRP= MAXOCTETS= \
> > > 
> > > No plugins support means that some PPP over ATM DSL connections will
> > > not work (but one or more extra packages would be needed anyway).
> > 
> > Sorry to be late about this, but i think that removing plugin support is
> > not so nice, especially as you then loose pppoatm support, and this
> > would mean no installation over pppoatm ADSL modems.
> > 
> > And yes, i plan to somehow make the unicorn drivers available as udebs,
> > altough i don't know yet how i will achieve that and since they are
> > non-free, they cannot go into the official medias.
> 
> If thats the only one and the size is different you should build a
> ppp-atm udeb for it. I would like to have a floppy set with dsl
> (userspace or kernel pppoe, whichever works and is smaller) support so
> space is at a premium.

Most french ISP uses pppoatm, and not pppoe, so it will hardly be
usefull here.

Friendly,

Sven Luther