amazonlinux
[Package Request] - openvpn
What package is missing from Amazon Linux 2022? Please describe and include package name.
openvpn
Is this an update to existing package or new package request?
New package request
Is this package available in Amazon Linux 2?
No, but it is available in fedora and EPEL 7.
Number of users impacted
One or more 😛
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What is the status of this? AL2 EOL is 6-30-2025 and EPEL repo cannot be used at all in AL2023. If you don't plan to support AL2 after that date, I would hope this and many other packages will be supported so many users can upgrade from AL2 to AL2023. This is basically a blocker for us at my company.
Hi, It would really help to know if it is planned to add openvpn support or not and when would it be available.
I guess this is going nowhere fast. Seriously what a p.i.t.a.
Thankfully I only wasted about 2 hours setting up an EC2 with "Amazon Linux 2023" - and thanks to this roadblock, I have to ditch that and start again from zero with a different distro.
We dropped the ball last year, I got the team to look at it again, I'm hoping to have a final decision soon
OpenVPN and/or access with full compatibility to the Epel repository for other packages is a must for Amazon Linux 2023. What is the status of implementing this? Questions have been ongoing for over two years. We need this now to plan for migration.
Thanks - with end of life less than a year away, it is critical that if AWS wants migration to Amazon Linux 2023 - that it must have at least as many packages available as AL2. That means support for the EPEL repository, including packages like OpenVPN. If not, uses will be forced to use another distribution. This needs urgent attention from AWS. Thank you.
Support for EPEL is not on our agenda. EPEL contains packages built for RHEL9 which is a different distribution with different set of base libraries etc, it's simply not feasible to guarantee that things built for RHEL9 will work in any reasonable way on AL2023 (some might, by chance, some won't...).
In any case, EPEL is fundamentally unsupported software. That means that there should be NO difference from a customer standpoint between downloading something from EPEL and "running random software off the internet" or even building yourself.
That said we are looking carefully at packages requests and balancing that with our team ability to maintain and CVE patch them properly. OpenVPN is still being evaluated by the team at this point.
Thank you for the update - I think this will be a very important and widely used addition to the Amazon Linux 2023 repository.
AL2023.6 is out with
Name : openvpn
Version : 2.6.12
Release : 1.amzn2023.0.1
Architecture : aarch64
Size : 660 k
Source : openvpn-2.6.12-1.amzn2023.0.1.src.rpm
Repository : amazonlinux
Summary : A full-featured TLS VPN solution
URL : https://community.openvpn.net/
License : GPLv2
Description : OpenVPN is a robust and highly flexible tunneling application that uses all
: of the encryption, authentication, and certification features of the
: OpenSSL library to securely tunnel IP networks over a single UDP or TCP
: port. It can use the Marcus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumers LZO library
: for compression.
The release notes will be updated shortly
AL2023.6 is out with
Name : openvpn Version : 2.6.12 Release : 1.amzn2023.0.1 Architecture : aarch64 Size : 660 k Source : openvpn-2.6.12-1.amzn2023.0.1.src.rpm Repository : amazonlinux Summary : A full-featured TLS VPN solution URL : https://community.openvpn.net/ License : GPLv2 Description : OpenVPN is a robust and highly flexible tunneling application that uses all : of the encryption, authentication, and certification features of the : OpenSSL library to securely tunnel IP networks over a single UDP or TCP : port. It can use the Marcus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumers LZO library : for compression.The release notes will be updated shortly
Hello. I'm checking packages in the latest Docker image (https://hub.docker.com/layers/library/amazonlinux/latest/images/sha256-472e2f28b1f94ce0177f26b216ac6c7f3e29848f4e0a68b7cb044eff41190438?context=explore), but don't see that OpenVPN is included. Am I right?
Dockerhub can be a bit behind ECR, so if you docker pull public.aws.ecr/amazonlinux/amazonlinux you'll get the latest.
(the reason behind this delay is that Dockerhub updates come behind a PR on GitHub, while we have API access to just push to ECR)
