Mer-tools package for tinc VPN software

answered 2014-04-01 23:37:33 +0200

gcobb
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updated 2014-04-02 01:14:06 +0200

I have created a package for tinc, although I have not yet looked into integration with connman.

It is currently in my Mer OBS repository (home:gcobb:jolla:user). If anyone wants to use it, you can install it as follows:

ssu ar gcobb-user http://repo.merproject.org/obs/home:/gcobb:/jolla:/user/sailfish_latest_armv7hl/
pkcon refresh
pkcon install tinc

Once you have created the normal /etc/tinc/ directories you can start and stop tinc using (as root):

systemctl start tinc@net.service
systemctl stop tinc@net.service

where net should be replaced with the network name.

You can see the tinc log messages using:

journalctl | fgrep tinc

If you use this, please add a comment to this answer so I know that at least someone else has tried it! I am currently looking into whether I can contribute the package to the chum community repository. I will leave the question open for now while I look into connman and chum.