Feedback about OpenWrt and Tinc version to be packaged.

[Graham Cobb]

On 29/05/16 08:04, Saverio Proto wrote:
> Packaging a  software for a distribution is not just about software
> development. There are operational issues to be addressed.
> A lot of people use the tinc package and they expect they configs to
> survive a package update. 

I am not sure this is too much of a problem, as long as the change is
fairly well advertised (this list may be enough?).  However, if I am
going to have change my config, this would probably be the time to bring
it fully into the OpenWRT /etc/config UCI regime.

Personally, I find it convenient to use the same config files as on my
other nodes, particularly copying host files.  But, I would be willing
to switch to configuration using UCI -- as long as it meant I could get
rid of the tinc.conf and tinc-up completely.  It might be nice to allow
an option to keep using the hosts files -- i.e. be able to either use
UCI to replace all the hosts files, or configure UCI to tell tinc to
continue to use the hosts files.

> Also they expect the VPN to continue working
> even if they dont upgrade all the nodes at once.

That is important, although I believe 1.1 and 1.0 are compatible.

> ...
> I dont want to impose my thinking and keep Tinc in OpenWRT at 1.0.x,
> so I am here to collect user feedback to take a better decision.

As for whether this is the time to switch to 1.1, I would ask Guus for
guidance.  If I did switch my main openwrt router to tinc 1.1 I would
probably use that as the trigger to start the process to switch my other
nodes to 1.1 as well.

Graham