OpenSSL with Elliptic Curve

[Jeff Mendoza]

> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:56:13 -0500
> From: rdieter at fedoraproject.org
> To: rpmfusion-developers at lists.rpmfusion.org
> Subject: Re: OpenSSL with Elliptic Curve
> 
> On 06/14/2013 02:28 AM, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
>> On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 22:37 -0700, Jeff Mendoza wrote:
>>> I elected to have openssl-freeworld and openssl-freeworld-devel
>>> conflict with the regular packages. openssl-freeworld has the binary
>>> openssl, this is not really needed, as the change is in the lib, and
>>> the regular openssl binary will work with openssl-freeworld-libs.
>>> openssl-freeworld-devel will conflict by installing the header files
>>> in the usual place. I had to modify the pkg-config files in the devel
>>> package to point to the new lib location.
>>
>> Sorry, just wanting some clarification. Can the regular openssl binary
>> use the freeworld functions of openssl-freeworld-libs? If so, wouldn't
>> it make more sense to just not bother building openssl-freeworld and
>> only provide openssl-freeworld-libs?
> 
> Same question for openssl-freeworld-devel, could we get away with not 
> creating that one too?
> 
> -- Rex

Nope, the regular openssl-devel does not have the headers for the excluded algorithms. Also, the pkg-config files have been updated to point to the new locations of the libs.

-Jeff