[arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssl and ca-certificates

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun Dec 28 09:11:30 EST 2008


Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am Freitag 19 Dezember 2008 22:03:22 schrieb Pierre Schmitz:
>   
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> it has been in testing for some time now. So I guess if nobody noticed any
>> problem so far it should be all fine. So, what's new about openssl?
>>
>> * removed from base group
>> * optdepends to ca-certificates (depends would not work, because openssl
>> has to be installed before openssl due to the install script)
>> * depends on zlib (no more staticaly build against zlib) and perl (needed
>> by c_rehash script)
>> * Stack marked as not executable. This only affects x86_64 or custom
>> kernels with pae (and NX capable CPU) or pax.
>>   See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12434
>>     
>
> Any comments?
>
>   

My comment is that "because openssl has to be installed before openssl" 
is confusing....  :)

Otherwise, this seems fine to me.  Signoff i686

Allan





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