No /openssl.cnf file could be found because of a wrong regex in whichopensslcnf

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@Munzir, your patch is in the wrong order. Here is a minimal patch hoping this could be SRUed.

The patch was accepted upstream: https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa/commit/a812fed7fbc39d4936c348d4a1a9c0e07e6d65f6

Why am I still seeing this bug? It looks like this patch doesn't help in any way, or there was some other regresion in the mean time...

I tried editing manually both versions of whichopensslcnf, I used:

"elif $OPENSSL version | grep -E "1\.0\.[[:digit:]][[:alnum:]]?" > /dev/null; then"

but I still get missing file error:

# ./build-ca
grep: /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/openssl.cnf: No such file or directory
pkitool: KEY_CONFIG (set by the ./vars script) is pointing to the wrong
version of openssl.cnf: /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/openssl.cnf
The correct version should have a comment that says: easy-rsa version 2.x

Guys this is really sloppy package maintenance, this should be fixed with highest priority.

Upon further inspection here is what happens, regex now works if you use

"elif $OPENSSL version | grep -E "1\.0\.[[:digit:]][[:alnum:]]?" > /dev/null; then"

in file "whichopensslcnf"

Here is how grep regex works on the command line:
# openssl version | grep -E "1\.0\.[[:digit:]][[:alnum:]]?
OpenSSL 1.0.1 14 Mar 2012

So you need to add new elif for version 1.0.1 because there is no config file for 1.0.1, and fallback file "openssl.cnf" is missing!!!

root@vpn:/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa# ls -al *.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7768 Nov 2 15:28 openssl-0.9.6.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8325 Nov 2 15:28 openssl-0.9.8.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8222 Nov 2 15:28 openssl-1.0.0.cnf

Debian, CentOS and Fedora all have beside only number in vrersion also one character in version of openssl, for example:

OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012

Why is Ubuntu missing this alphanumeric character?

I will attach a debdiff for precise SRU. It looks like only precise is affected in current supported releases.

 openssl | 0.9.8k-7ubuntu8 | lucid | source
 openssl | 0.9.8k-7ubuntu8.15 | lucid-security | source
 openssl | 0.9.8k-7ubuntu8.15 | lucid-updates | source
 openssl | 1.0.1-4ubuntu3 | precise | source
 openssl | 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.11 | precise-security | source
 openssl | 1.0.1-4ubuntu5.11 | precise-updates | source
 openssl | 1.0.1c-3ubuntu2 | quantal | source
 openssl | 1.0.1c-3ubuntu2.6 | quantal-security | source
 openssl | 1.0.1c-3ubuntu2.6 | quantal-updates | source
 openssl | 1.0.1e-3ubuntu1 | saucy | source
 openssl | 1.0.1e-3ubuntu1.1 | saucy-security | source
 openssl | 1.0.1e-3ubuntu1.1 | saucy-updates | source
 openssl | 1.0.1f-1ubuntu1 | trusty | source

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ACK on the debdiff in #10, looks good.
I've uploaded the package to precise-proposed for processing by the SRU team.

Thanks!

Hello Munzir, or anyone else affected,

Accepted openvpn into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvpn/2.2.1-8ubuntu1.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

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I confirmed that openvpn 2.2.1-8ubuntu1.2/precise-proposed works as expected and passes the test case above.

This bug was fixed in the package openvpn - 2.2.1-8ubuntu1.2

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openvpn (2.2.1-8ubuntu1.2) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * d/p/lp992012-detect-openssl-properly.patch: fix "openssl.cnf file
    could be found" error using easy-rsa by parsing openssl version
    properly. (LP: #992012)
 -- Nobuto MURATA <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:35:32 +0900

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