[Csync2] csync2 without gnutls-openssl?

[Tim Serong]

On 7/27/2010 at 07:17 AM, "Giampaolo Tomassoni" <Giampaolo at Tomassoni.biz> wrote: 
> would appear that RHEL have, in their infinite wisdom, dropped 
> > gnutls-openssl.so libraries from gnutls because there appears to be a 
> > namespace clash somewhere: 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460310 
> >  
> > RHEL6b2 has had these removed, and it seems the F13+ gnutls will be 
> > having it removed, too. 
> >  
> > Can csync2 developers suggest a reasonable long-term solution to this? 
> > RH seem unwilling to consider unbreaking this: 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617558 
>  
> I dropped my own dirty patch to this ng some months ago (sometime aroung 
> november 2009), but it seems it didn't (yet) find its way to the csync2 
> official code. 
>  
> You may eventually get a copy of the patch here: 
>  
> 	http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=210768 
>  
> which is an attachment from Gentoo bug#274213 
> (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274213). 
>  
> The patch basically "discards" all the gnutls-openssl mess and gets straight 
> to gnutls native mode. This also *may* mean that one can expect some 
> interoperability issues after upgrade, because of a *possible* different 
> handling of the chain-of-trust in server and client certificates between 
> gnutls-openssl calls and gnutls ones. Anyway, I have no report of this at 
> the time. 
>   
> Please note the patch is big because it also patches "configure" and 
> autoconf files. The "raw" patch is instead really small. 

This patch is in csync2 in openSUSE 11.3 (csync2-1.34-pure-gnutls-r2.patch):

https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=csync2&project=openSUSE:11.3

I assume it shouldn't be too difficult for someone to take this and push it
into FC.

HTH,

Tim


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Tim Serong <tserong at novell.com>
Senior Clustering Engineer, OPS Engineering, Novell Inc.