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Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 11:21:10 +0200
From: j.w.r.degoede(a)gmail.com
To: rpmfusion-developers(a)lists.rpmfusion.org
CC: jeffmendoza(a)live.com
Subject: Re: OpenSSL with Elliptic Curve
Hi,
...
Given the special nature of openssl and its tendency to change soname
every other release, the only
acceptable solution to me would be to:
1) Not Conflict
2) Put the openssl so file in a subdir of %{_libdir}
3) Provide an example file for /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ as %doc
4) Add a README.rpmfusion explaining that the example file needs to be copied by the
admin to
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/ and containing a big fat warning that rpmfusion cannot guarantee
timely
security updates to its openssl package, and that the admin may need to disable it,
falling back
to the rpmfusion version, when a security update to openssl is needed.
Note that this means that a simple "yum install openssl-freeworld" will do
nothing but eat some
disk-space. This is by design, so that people doing "yum install openssl*" or
"yum install *-freeworld" don't accidentally start depending on our
openssl. The move to rpmfusion
ssl REALLY needs to be a conscious decision, not a side effect of a badly constructed yum
command.
Regards,
Hans
Sounds good, I'll see what I can do.
Thanks,
Jeff