[Openswan dev] First pass README update

[Harald Jenny]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:32:23AM +0200, Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Harald Jenny" <harald at a-little-linux-box.at>
> To: <dev at openswan.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [Openswan dev] First pass README update
> 
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 09:00:45AM +0200, Thomas Geulig wrote:
> > > On Thursday 14 October 2010 06:04:05 David McCullough wrote:
> > > >    perl is also required for "ipsec verify".
> > >
> > > and the new "policy" command.
> > >
> > > BTW Paul said, he wants to redo verify in Python.
> > > Wouldn't it be better to stick to just ONE scripting language?
> > > (I prefer shell scripts.)
> > > Otherwise it get's more and more difficult on embedded systems.
> >
> > +1
> >
> +1
> I use openswan on a distrib that don't require Python actually.
> perl is a mandatory build requirement on an LFS system and (could be |is)
> used for a web GUI.
> >From a build point of view, Python is an option only required to shrink libs
> with mklibs and not many care of boot floppy size today.
> 
> for f in $(cat /tmp/openswan_list); do [ -f $f ] && grep -H '\#\!\/' $f ;
> done
> etc/rc.d/ipsec:#!/bin/sh
> etc/rc.d/setup:#!/bin/sh
> usr/lib/ipsec/_plutoload:#!/bin/sh
> usr/lib/ipsec/_plutorun:#!/bin/sh
> usr/lib/ipsec/_realsetup:#!/bin/sh
> usr/lib/ipsec/_startklips:#!/bin/sh
> usr/lib/ipsec/_startnetkey:#!/bin/sh
> usr/libexec/ipsec/policy:#!/usr/bin/perl -w
> usr/libexec/ipsec/setup:#!/bin/sh
> usr/libexec/ipsec/verify:#!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> So script requirement is actually not that hard.
> I run checkbashisms against the /bin/sh scripts and had ulimit and type
> warnings.
> I checked that busybox support ulimit and even prefer type against which (at
> least in my BB config)

I mainly use openswan on Debian but there is also an OpenWRT Router I maintain
so I think this is a good point to keep the required languages to a minimum...

> 
> Gilles

Kind regards
Harald

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