Make networkmanager-l2tp available again in packages

Feedback Feature Request
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Looks like networkmanager-l2tp has been moved from AUR to the “official” Arch packages recently: https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/networkmanager-l2tp/

It seems that this move has caused networkmanager-l2tp to disappear completely from the Manjaro software / packages.

Any way how to get it back?

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It’s currently only available in the unstable repo.

EDIT: Now available in all branches.

The PKGBUILD from the AUR is here. Save it as PKGBUILD and…

sudo pacman -Syu --needed base-devel
mkdir ~/temp/networkmanager-l2tp && cd ~/temp/networkmanager-l2tp # or wherever you want
mv ~/Downloads/PKGBUILD ~/temp/networkmanager-l2tp
makepkg -srcif
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Thanks.

Any idea how long it will take to “graduate” the package from unstable to the official repo?

Currently, there seems to be a “bug” in version 1.8.6-3 related to the wrong version of ppp:

pppd[37765]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.7/nm-l2tp-pppd-plugin.so is for pppd version 2.4.7, this is 2.4.8

Newbies like me often tend to follow the “have you tried turning it off and on again?” approach and try to re-install the involved packages. Which in case of networkmanager-l2tp is not easily done at the moment.

It would be nice to display some kind of warning in pamac / pacman that the package is not available in any repository at the moment (even if it is currently installed).

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There actually might not be an x86_64 stable update for awhile as a majority of the team is focusing on ARM right now.

Rebuilding it as outlined above against ppp 2.4.8 will fix that.

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Rebuilding it as outlined above against ppp 2.4.8 will fix that.

Thanks. That worked.

There actually might not be an x86_64 stable update for awhile as a majority of the team is focusing on ARM right now.

Does that mean, that current users won’t receive updates for networkmanager-l2tp and new users won’t be able to install it on Manjaro?
I understand that Manjaro’s default package repositories are based on but different from the Arch package repositories. Is there a way to add the Arch package repository to Manjaro and just install this one package (Arch Linux - networkmanager-l2tp 1.8.6-4 (x86_64)) from there?

Or should I keep track of the PKGBUILD there and use above instructions to manually build any updates as they become available there?

What is your recommendation?

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Might as well. I just pushed 1.8.6-3.1 to testing and 1.8.6-3.0 to stable.

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Thanks a lot! :+1:

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