Subject: Re: README: changes to the build system
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 07/13/1999 23:28:01
>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
Jason> You may have noticed my mega-commit yesterday which completely reworks
Jason> the build system for integrated cryptography support. These changes
Jason> are designed to make it easier to support multiple different crypto
Jason> code bases: one for the USA (crypto-us) and one for the free world
Jason> (crypto-intl).
Thank you Jason, this is really cool.
I would like to make another suggestion that is slightly unrelated to the
build process, but affects the install. I think it would be nice if crypto
in the base system installed in something like /usr/crypto/bin, etc.. perhaps
with symlinks in /usr/bin, etc.
Why? so that one can do:
# rm -rf /usr/crypto/bin
# zzz
<pass through US customs... connect at hotel>
# pkg-based-sysinst-install ftp://ftp.fi.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/.../cryptopkg
#
I suppose that one could use "pkg-based-sysinst-remove" instead and still
spread things around, but I'd like to have the non-kerberos telnet and ftp,
etc. installed somewhere as well.
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