pulsesecureclient

README.md

This is a imperfect try to package Pulse Connect Secure. It can't display non-ASCII on VPN login pages and it requires sudo to run.

For normal users, please check out https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pulse-connect-secure

PKGBUILD

# Maintainer: Yen Chi Hsuan

pkgname=pulsesecureclient
pkgver=8.2R5
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Pulse Secure Client"
arch=('x86_64')
license=('custom')
url="http://www.python.org/"
depends=('')
source=(https://secure.nis.vt.edu/resources/downloads/pulse-8.2R5.i386.deb
        pulseUi-wrapper.sh
        pulseUi-wrapper-inner.sh)
sha256sums=('b2eda0436a15336b2999772bd4e03ea97651b80a245f07699869b88033a5f350'
            '734b5bf225c1df0e9c20fb9a5c1151b704127af5940d0a5a0765f22ea3e2feb7'
            '99caf69cbf4e297a9bdd2e586a860190f4a1cc11c9709172f967c1149db7d338')
optdepends=('lib32-webkitgtk: for pulseUi frontend')

prepare() {
    tar -zxvf data.tar.gz
    mkdir -p pulse && pushd pulse
    tar -zxvf ../usr/local/pulse/pulse.tgz
}

package() {
  cd "${srcdir}/"

  install -Ddm755 "${pkgdir}"/usr/bin
  install -Ddm755 "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib32/$pkgname
  install -Ddm755 "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/applications
  install -Ddm755 "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/$pkgname

  # Skip PulseClient.sh - seems it's not useful here
  install -Dm755 pulse/{pulsesvc,pulsediag} "${pkgdir}"/usr/bin/
  install -Dm755 pulse/pulseUi_centos_7 "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib32/$pkgname/pulseUi
  install -Dm755 pulse/libpulseui.so_centos_7 "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib32/libpulseui.so
  install -Dm755 pulse/pulseUi.desktop "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/applications/

  cp -dr --no-preserve=ownership pulse/html "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/$pkgname/html

  # HACK: use overlayfs to cheat pulseUi
  install -Ddm755 "${pkgdir}"/var/lib/$pkgname/overlayfs-{lower,upper,work,merged}
  install -Ddm755 "${pkgdir}"/var/lib/$pkgname/overlayfs-lower/usr/local/pulse
  ln -s /usr/share/$pkgname/html "${pkgdir}"/var/lib/$pkgname/overlayfs-lower/usr/local/pulse/
  ln -s /usr/bin/pulsesvc "${pkgdir}"/var/lib/$pkgname/overlayfs-lower/usr/local/pulse/
  install -Dm755 pulseUi-wrapper.sh "${pkgdir}"/usr/bin/pulseUi
  install -Dm755 pulseUi-wrapper-inner.sh "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib32/$pkgname/
}

pulseUi-wrapper-inner.sh

#!/bin/sh

set -xe

export XAUTHORITY=/root/.Xauthority
xauth add $XAUTH_COOKIE
exec /usr/lib32/pulsesecureclient/pulseUi

pulseUi-wrapper.sh

#!/bin/sh

set -xe

SUDO=sudo

overlayfs_top=/var/lib/pulsesecureclient
overlayfs_merged=$overlayfs_top/overlayfs-merged
if [ ! -e $overlayfs_merged/dev ] ; then
    $SUDO mount -t overlay overlay -o lowerdir=/:$overlayfs_top/overlayfs-lower,upperdir=$overlayfs_top/overlayfs-upper,workdir=$overlayfs_top/overlayfs-work $overlayfs_merged
fi
if [ ! -e $overlayfs_merged/dev/null ] ; then
    $SUDO mount --bind /dev $overlayfs_merged/dev
fi
if [ ! -e $overlayfs_merged/proc/cmdline ] ; then
    $SUDO mount --bind /proc $overlayfs_merged/proc
fi

$SUDO env XAUTH_COOKIE="$(xauth list)" chroot $overlayfs_merged /usr/lib32/pulsesecureclient/pulseUi-wrapper-inner.sh