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Getting network-manager-openconnect to work

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: "pelzflorian \(Florian Pelz\)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
Cc: Help guix <help-guix <at> gnu.org>, Divan Santana <divan <at> santanas.co.za>,
 bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting network-manager-openconnect to work
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 22:46:56 +0200

Hi Florian,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de> skribis:

> From 8de7675a2dc2c1385d312e35136f8fa9eb4f9825 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Florian Pelz <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 12:59:19 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: network-manager: Enable openconnect helper.
>
> * gnu/packages/gnome.scm (network-manager): Add openconnect input.
> Patch source to use it instead of searching /usr/bin.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/gnome.scm | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
> index efe5206e53..a6ea09d8f6 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/gnome.scm
> @@ -5372,6 +5372,13 @@ users.")
>                 (("src/devices/tests/test-lldp") " ")
>                 (("src/tests/test-route-manager-linux") " "))
>               #t))
> +         (add-after 'unpack 'patch-source
> +           (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
> +             (begin
> +               (substitute* "clients/common/nm-vpn-helpers.c"
> +                 (("\\\"/usr/sbin/openconnect\\\"")
> +                  (string-append openconnect "\"/bin/openconnect\"")))
> +               #t)))
>           (add-after 'unpack 'delete-failing-tests
>             (lambda _
>               ;; FIXME: These four tests fail for unknown reasons.
> @@ -5434,6 +5441,7 @@ users.")
>         ("libsoup" ,libsoup)
>         ("modem-manager" ,modem-manager)
>         ("newt" ,newt)                       ;for the 'nmtui' console interface
> +       ("openconnect" ,openconnect)

Something I don’t get: why does NM itself know about openconnect?

There’s a network-manager-openconnect plugin, so I would expect
everything openconnect to happen there.  Do you know why it’s not that
way?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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