[OE-core] [PATCH] openssl: Add ca-certificates in RRECOMMENDS

[Khem Raj]

On Sep 25, 2013, at 8:52 AM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 25 September 2013 20:03:19 Muhammad Shakeel wrote:
>> On 09/19/2013 06:03 PM, Shakeel, Muhammad wrote:
>>> From: Muhammad Shakeel <muhammad_shakeel at mentor.com>
>>> 
>>> In some situations ca-certificates are required along with openssl
>>> to communicate securely, i.e. curl trying to fetch contents through https.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Shakeel <muhammad_shakeel at mentor.com>
>>> ---
>>> 
>>>  meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl.inc |    2 ++
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl.inc
>>> b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl.inc index 78ff7ae..cf60d4b
>>> 100644
>>> --- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl.inc
>>> +++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl.inc
>>> @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
>>> "file://LICENSE;md5=f9a8f968107345e0b75aa8c2ecaa7ec8"> 
>>>  DEPENDS = "perl-native-runtime"
>>> 
>>> +RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "ca-certificates"
>>> +
>>> 
>>>  SRC_URI = "http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-${PV}.tar.gz \
>>> 
>>>            "
>>> 
>>>  S = "${WORKDIR}/openssl-${PV}"
>> 
>> Any feedback on this?
> 
> I could be wrong, but this doesn't seem like the right thing to do. Surely 
> individual *applications* that need ca-certificates in conjunction with OpenSSL 
> should be adding it to their RRECOMMENDS?

may be RSUGGESTS_${PN} is an option here.

> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
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> 
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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