[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/3] Use OpenSSL MD5 crypto functions if available

[Allan McRae]

On 04/09/10 19:16, Jürgen Hötzel wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> 2010/9/2 Dan McGee<dan at archlinux.org>:
>> This does not remove the MD5 code from our codebase, but it does enable
>> linking against OpenSSL to get their much faster implementation if it is
>> available on whatever platform you are using. At configure-time, we will
>> default to using it if it is available, but this can be easily changed by
>> using the `--with-openssl` or `--without-openssl` arguments to configure.
>
> What about just replacing the current MD5 implementation with the
> OpenSSL implementation?
>
> This would prevent conditional compilation and a direct OpenSSL
> dependency in libalpm.

Can we do that?  Openssl is BSD code.


Anyway, I have concerns...   Think of an openssl upgrade.  pacman is in 
SyncFirst and it pulls in all its deps.  If that pulls in openssl with a 
soname bump, things may get interesting.  I have not check, but I do not 
think --as-needed saves us there.

Allan