[oe] [RFC] move openssl.cnf file into base openssl package

[Maupin, Chase]

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> В сообщении от Среда 15 декабря 2010 22:47:05 автор Maupin, Chase написал:
> > > Missed that change. Seems wrong to me. And I still think that it
> belongs
> > > to
> > > libcrypto, not openssl since you can easily not install openssl binary
> > > and still use it with tuned openssl.cnf in your apps.
> >
> > So it seems like there are two packages that need this default
> openssl.cnf
> >  file, the libcrypto and openssl packages.  Would it perhaps be a better
> >  idea to pull the configuration file into its own package and then set
> the
> >  RDEPENDS for the libcrypto and openssl packages to use the openssl
> >  configuration package? That way you can still have multiple versions of
> >  libcrypto (like Koen was trying to do) and have the default file shared
> >  between both packages that need it.
> 
> openssl is rdepending on libcrypto anyway (it's linked with it and I don't
> think it'll change any time soon). But configs for different versions can
> be
> conflicting, so I'm not sure this kind of approach solves anything.

I noticed that.  I think the only thing that putting this into its own package would solve is addressing Koen's comment about having multiple versions of libcrypto installed.

Koen, can you comment on your change that moved the openssl.cnf file to the misc package?  Do you still need to be able to install multiple versions of libcrypto?

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