[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 00/10] Add openssl 1.1

[Davis, Michael]

I think most of the major distros have either switched or are in the process this year.



From: openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org [mailto:openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Khem Raj
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 3:36 PM
To: Alexander Kanavin; Gary Thomas; openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [OE-core] [RFC PATCH 00/10] Add openssl 1.1


On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 12:34 PM Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com<mailto:alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com>> wrote:
On 05/10/2017 09:56 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> Why not do this in a "softer" way - make the new 1.1 package have the
> obscured name (and not be preferred by default)?  That way existing
> uses of the older 1.0 package can continue but users can migrate to
> 1.1 as they see fit?

I have an answer which you might not particularly like. But here goes:

What will actually happen is that no one will do anything to port their
stuff until it's time to remove 1.0 because upstream has EOLd it. And
then there'll still be complaints that more time is needed for the
transition. I'd like to gently push people to plan this transition
already now - and it's as gentle as it can be: if you pull from master
and your things no longer build, make one simple change and they will.
It's part and parcel of being on the bleeding edge, or rebasing to the
new yocto release: not everything works exactly as before, and most
components are newer and different and not always fully compatible.


It is a cross distro item really we should find out what other Linux distributions are doing about it moving forward unless major distros also have same policy there won't be much momentum this would gain among the packages ecosystems this could also help in sharing the porting burden


The other reason is that it's more work for me: I would have to update
everything in oe-core to use the new recipe, instead of fixing just a
few recipes that need to stay with 1.0. And then again the same thing
will happen when 1.2 is out.

Alex
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