[OE-core] [PATCH 4/4] gstreamer-plugins-bad: replace openssl dependency with nettle for hls plugin

Alexander Kanavin alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com
Wed Aug 9 11:05:15 UTC 2017


On 08/08/2017 09:55 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:
> For now I'm fine with 1.0 support.  So something like:
> 
> # ensure OpenSSL is used for HLS AES description instead of nettle
> # (OpenSSL is a shared dependency with dtls)
> PACKAGECONFIG[hls_openssl10]             = "--enable-hls
> --with-hls-crypto=openssl,--disable-hls,openssl10"
> 
> PACKAGECONFIG[hls]             = "--enable-hls
> --with-hls-crypto=nettle,--disable-hls,nettle"

Sure, I can amend the patch.

> But my concern is changing the choice of encryption engine could break various
> existing uses.  (Like I said, -I- don't have that use, but I expect others do..
> perhaps not with gstreamer-plugins-bad though?)

You can say the same thing about almost anything that goes into master. 
In this case it doesn't matter, as there is a trivial way to revert the 
choice, but if the change was more involved, I would appreciate more 
specific evidence that this indeed causes real problems.

Alex



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