From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Nicol=C3=B2?= Balzarotti Subject: Re: Working on network-manager-l2tp Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 13:51:11 +0100 Message-ID: <87k13hkerk.fsf@guixSD.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: <87mu8d7tw3.fsf@jlicht.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47566) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jEYAK-0007vC-JR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 08:51:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jEYAJ-00030i-8S for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 08:51:20 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-x430.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::430]:43754) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jEYAJ-0002wE-0N for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 08:51:19 -0400 Received: by mail-wr1-x430.google.com with SMTP id b2so24012085wrj.10 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 05:51:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87mu8d7tw3.fsf@jlicht.xyz> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Jelle Licht , guix-devel@gnu.org Jelle Licht writes: > Hey guix, > Hi! > Seeing as a lot of people might be working from home at the moment, it > seems a good moment to look at issues that might prevent us from using > guix for that exact purpose. Right now, I can not connect to my company > vpn, which make several processes much more difficult than they need to > be. > > The issue with network-manager-l2tp is that because of licensing > incompatibilities, version built with OpenSSL < 3.0 cannot be > redistributed in binary form. As people informed me previously at [1], > it seems that it is currently not possible to prevent the distribution > of substitutes using guix. > I'm not 100% sure, but I saw a commit with zfs with the argument: (#:substitutable? #f) (it's under gnu/packages/file-systems.scm) Maybe this is what you are looking for. > I still would like to get network-manager-l2tp packaged, as well as make > a simple service definition available. A hack that would allow us to > truly disable substitutions of certain store paths is a > solution. Another option is to simply wait until OpenSSL 3.0 is > released, although this might still take until Q4 of 2020 [3]. > > Any ideas? > > - Jelle > Nicol=C3=B2 > > [1]: http://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2019-10-15.log#171645 > [2]: https://github.com/nm-l2tp/NetworkManager-l2tp > [3]: https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2019/11/07/3.0-update/