[Swan-dev] Libreswan 5.0 RC1 Suggested Documentation Fixes

[Andrew Cagney]

See https://github.com/libreswan/libreswan which is the current version.

On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 14:03, Bill Atwood <williamatwood41 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I suggest the following changes to README.md:
>
> 1. Under the heading "Building for REM based systems", line 3.  "spce"
> -> "spec"

Already fixed.

> 2. Under the heading "Compiling the userland and IKE daemon manually in
> /usr/local", the first line is "make programs", which returns an error
> message:
>       "make: *** No rule to make target 'programs'.  Stop."

It says <<gmake>> like every other Makefile out there.

> Note 1: the INSTALL file in the same directory suggests "make all".

INSTALL was gutted.

> Note 2: this error was reported to swan-dev on 2023-09-13, and a
> response was sent by Andrew Cagney to the list on 2023-12-19, reporting
> that many of my suggestions had been addressed, but clearly this one has
> not (or at least it was not fixed before RC1 was released).
>
> 3. Further down under the same heading, it says:
> "Run `ipsec verify` to determine if your system misses any of the
> requirements. This will also tell you if any of the kernel sysctl values
> needs changing."

Already fixed.

> However, once libreswan is installed, running `ipsec verify` gives the
> following error message:
> /usr/local/sbin/ipsec: unknown IPsec command "verify" ("ipsec help" for
> list)
> In addition, running 'ipsec help' produces no mention of a "verify" command.
>
> Either the "verify" command needs to be re-installed, or these two
> sentences need to be removed.
>
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