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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] OpenSSL 1.1.0
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 10:06:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160903140613.GB12802@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8737lhm6rk.fsf@gnu.org>

On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 03:50:55PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> > When I put "openssl" in the 'name' field, as attached, `guix build
> > openssl` gives me 1.1.0, which is not right. The other *-next packages
> > all seem to use "name-next" as the name.
> 
> Yes, but it’s different.  Guile 2.1, for instance, is the development
> series, so it makes sense to give it a different name so users don’t end
> up using the “wrong” series.
> 
> Conversely, IIUC, OpenSSL 1.1.0 is the new stable series, no?

1.1.0 is the new stable series, but I haven't found any software that
can use the new interface yet. So, I don't want to make 1.1.0 the
default OpenSSL version in Guix. Does that make sense?

> > Also, I wonder if this should inherit from openssl?
> >
> > Presumably there will be more security updates to openssl@1.0.2 before
> > openssl@1.1.0 is ready for general use, and I'd wouldn't like for
> > openssl@1.0.2 updates to be delayed while we wait to see if
> > openssl@1.1.0 still builds with the changes.
> 
> Though OpenSSL builds in 5–10 minutes, so the extra check wouldn’t take
> so long, no?

I guess it will not matter for now, since nothing will be using it. When
it becomes widely used, we can revisit this question.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-03 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-02  1:59 [PATCH 0/1] OpenSSL 1.1.0 Leo Famulari
2016-09-02  1:59 ` [PATCH 1/1] gnu: openssl: Update to 1.1.0 Leo Famulari
2016-09-02  7:40 ` [PATCH 0/1] OpenSSL 1.1.0 Ricardo Wurmus
2016-09-02 12:43   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-02 20:14     ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-02 20:30       ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-03 13:50       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-03 14:06         ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-09-03 14:34           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-04  2:20             ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-04  2:48               ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-05 20:35               ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-05 23:05                 ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-06 12:29                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-06 17:47                     ` Leo Famulari

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