Am Samstag, 22.03.03 um 02:46 Uhr schrieb Ben Hines:
I don't like this. With that reasoning you could just as well say: let's abolish the whole crypto/ tree, Apple ships the system with openssl anyway. So if we want to follow that route, we should do it for real. But that sounds like a half-baked, "I am too lazy to do it right" kind of solution.
On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 10:50 AM, Max Horn wrote:
I guess that would amount to having python, python-ssl, python-nox and python-nox-sll. Furthermore, there are the 21, 22 and 23 versions of it, for a total of 12 packages (not counting splitoffs). Ouch.
Maybe a system-python is needed after all, as an alternate solution for this issue?
How about considering a special case exclusion for python? (and consider it for other crypto packages that also come with the OS) - python with ssl enabled (yes?) comes with OS X, so going through hoops to separate it in fink seems silly. Also, our python could probably be made to link against the system openssl.
For that matter, why isn't the system-openssl package in yet? I think just because noone has done it, reports were that it worked fine.Most of our packages are geared towards the modern, more secure openssl 0.9.7 which is binary incompatible with the openssl (0.9.6 series) that Apple ships. So we would have to provide to variants of each package. I don't think that's a good idea, plus usually we are faster with our security updates for openssl than Apple is (e.g. I am working on incorporating some security patches for both openssl and openssl097 right now, which Apple SSL doesn't have yet; and remeber we had openssl 0.9.6i way before Apple had it.).
Max
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