Re: [RPM Fusion] Issue with fedora's openssl package for libbluray/libaacs

On 06/11/2012 06:08 PM, Nicolas Chauvet wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As you may know, the libaacs package from RPM Fusion rely on openssl > > functions that have been disabled in the fedora package for some > > reason. This is actually libgcrypt, not openssl, but this is the same issue. ECC is possibly patent-encumbered and thus disabled in both packages. The issue is still blocked by Fedora Legal. > > This lead the libaacs package to be partially unuseable for it's target usage. > > > > I would like to list what would be possible workarounds for this > > issue. We likely need to build a openssl-freeworld package: > > - Build a similar package and drop a file in ld.conf.d to make it > > system wide ? (the freetype-freeworld way) > > This seems unpractical as we may produce unknown behavior and > > un-certified code path with others applications. That was the solution I was looking at, but I've not finished up the work yet. If this is not an acceptable solution, please let me know so I don't resume work on it if this is doomed to be rejected.

> > - Build a shared object with another SONAME so packages liked with the > > freeworld version will not conflict with package linked with the > > fedora version. > > (It will eventually be possible to relink the so to the the fedora > > SONAME manually in a second step). > > - Build the freeworld version statically.