PR#856: The pkcs11 modules should not provide the pkgconfig and do not need to ship .so objects in the devel subpackage - packaging-committee

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#856 The pkcs11 modules should not provide the pkgconfig and do not need to ship .so objects in the devel subpackage

Merged 5 years ago by ignatenkobrain. Opened 5 years ago by jjelen.

jjelen/packaging-committee pkcs11-packageconfig into master

The pkcs11 modules should not provide the pkgconfig and do not need to ship .so objects in the devel subpackage

Jakub Jelen • 5 years ago

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guidelines/modules/ROOT/pages/Pkcs11Support.adoc

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		`$ p11tool --list-tokens`
		`-`
		`+`
		+ The packages SHOULD NOT provide the package config `*.pc` files for the PKCS#11 modules, since the applications are not supposed to link directly against these libraries. The PKCS#11 module shared object SHOULD NOT be in the -devel subpackage either.

		`[#registered]`
		`== How applications take advantage of registered provider modules`

jjelen commented 5 years ago

Update PKCS#11 packaging guidelines to make the unwritten explicit, after somebody tried to link against the PKCS#11 module:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1673139

Let me know if it is fine this way, it needs some adjustments.

rebased onto 990b239b26d363f1cc1ba4392e410988859d5f2f

5 years ago

jjelen commented 5 years ago

@nmav I found the following missing in the packaging guidelines for the PKCS#11 modules. Are you fine with these changes or would you like to add something?