[Openswan Users] openswan on RHEL 5

[Paul Wouters]

On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Ian Brown wrote:

> As I understand, your meaning is that I should take the source rpm of
> opesswan in FC7
> and rebuild.
>
> My question is : can I use the rpm binary of FC7 ? (without rebuild)
> Or is this attempt is dommed for failure by definition ?

There is no reason to do that, as rebuilding it takes three commands:
rpm -hiv openswan-x.y.z.src.rpm
yum install gmp-devel
rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/openswan.spec

Paul