OpenSSL with Elliptic Curve

[Jeff Mendoza]

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> Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 11:21:10 +0200
> From: j.w.r.degoede at gmail.com
> To: rpmfusion-developers at lists.rpmfusion.org
> CC: jeffmendoza at 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