Bug 544944

Summary:	Upgrade openvpn in EPEL to the latest version availble in rawhide ie openvpn-2.1-0.39.rc22
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	openvpn	Assignee:	Steven Pritchard <steve>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	el5	CC:	gwync, huzaifas, jc3atwork, steve, tuju
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2009-12-07 05:12:36 UTC

rawhide version is openvpn-2.1-0.39.rc22
EPEL-5 version is openvpn-2.1-0.30.rc15.el5,

Can EPEL version be upgraded.

I did a scratch build at: 
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1855777

I am also interested in co-maintaining his package if you dont mind :)

Comment 1 John Calderwood 2010-01-04 20:11:47 UTC

The current version of OpenVPN is out of RC and is V2.1.1.  Perhaps OpenVPN on EPEL 5 can be upgraded to that?  RC15 is pretty old now.  

http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/change-log/71-21-change-log.html

Comment 2 Gwyn Ciesla 2010-01-04 20:36:55 UTC

I'm actually working on a few openvpn bugs and updates with the manitainer's blessing, and should take care of this this week.

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2010-01-05 02:21:27 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> I'm actually working on a few openvpn bugs and updates with the manitainer's
> blessing, and should take care of this this week.  

Any thing i can help with?
I am interested in openvpn.

Comment 4 Gwyn Ciesla 2010-01-05 13:55:43 UTC

You can test the build once it's in koji.  I'll let you know.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-01-26 14:45:23 UTC

openvpn-2.1.1-2.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/openvpn-2.1.1-2.el5

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-01-26 23:45:15 UTC

openvpn-2.1.1-2.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update openvpn'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/EL-5/FEDORA-EPEL-2010-0121

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2010-02-23 23:05:24 UTC

openvpn-2.1.1-2.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.