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    Tinc menu disappears on every upgrade in 2.1

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      zenny
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      Thanks jimp for the update.

      It would be nice if it could be brought to the attention of the community member who contributed tinc package to pfSense 2.1. ;-)

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        I don't recall who submitted it but it's in a forum thread here somehwere.

        At a glance I'd say it's because of the way it does a config write in the middle of its install, not quite sure what the reasoning is there, but it seems to cause problems and it stops the package install process dead at that point before it has a chance to add its menus.

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          Hagabard
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          http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,53030.0.html

          Looks like apnar is the forum user name.  I'm interested in this on 2.0 as that's primarily what I use and would like to try tinc out over the current OpenVPN solution I use.  Seems almost effortless to add new networks in from the little I have played with it.  Looks like its only 2.1 only due to preference of his most frequent use of 2.1.

          Maybe we can have it added back in?

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            zenny
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            Thanks for the pointer. Sent a PM to him. ;-)

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              apnar
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              @zenny:

              Thanks for the pointer. Sent a PM to him. ;-)

              I took a quick look at the code and jimp made a few small tweaks about 12 days ago that might have fixed the issue.  Can you reinstall the plugin and see if you're still having problems?

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                apnar
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                @Hagabard:

                http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,53030.0.html

                Looks like apnar is the forum user name.  I'm interested in this on 2.0 as that's primarily what I use and would like to try tinc out over the current OpenVPN solution I use.  Seems almost effortless to add new networks in from the little I have played with it.  Looks like its only 2.1 only due to preference of his most frequent use of 2.1.

                Maybe we can have it added back in?

                The plugin itself should work fine in 2.0 I believe.  I mostly developed it on 2.0 before I moved to 2.1 (for ipv6 stuff).  The only thing that would need to change is the entry in pkg_config.8.xml.amd64 to make sure proper binaries are built and version compatibility added.  I don't have the time to do it now, but if someone else who knows the plugin stuff already wants to it should be reasonably easy.

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                  zenny
                  last edited by

                  @apnar:

                  @zenny:

                  Thanks for the pointer. Sent a PM to him. ;-)

                  I took a quick look at the code and jimp made a few small tweaks about 12 days ago that might have fixed the issue.  Can you reinstall the plugin and see if you're still having problems?

                  Nope, it still didn't work after upgrade.

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                  • jimpJ
                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                    last edited by

                    It's most likely the config write that happens in the install process. Seems to be there for a reason but it may be a catch-22. Either fix one or break another, I'm not sure what the best way to fix that might be.

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                      zenny
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                      After upgrade to July 11 build, tinc does not break, but pfjailctl breaks now. ;-)

                      So the upgrade breaks one or other package which is not good to deploy for a production system afaiac. However, I remember you stating somewhere that pfjailctl does neither work in 2.0.x nor in 2.1.

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                        doktornotor Banned
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                        With the patch, reinstal on upgrade causes endless "Packages are currently being reinstalled in the background." So, still kinda broken.

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                          Hagabard
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                          Or even when just reapplying a backed up configuration.

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