#60 Fedora 26 change: Replace Coolkey with OpenSC
Closed: Fixed 6 years ago Opened 6 years ago by pbokoc.

This issue tracks the release note for the following F26 Change:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Replace_Coolkey_with_OpenSC

If you want to write this release note, then:

  1. Assign this issue to yourself
  2. Check the wiki page linked above, find out what the change is about
  3. Determine whether the change actually made it into the release or not[0]
  4. Write a draft release note using that information
  5. Get in touch with the contact person/people listed on the wiki page, either through IRC or e-mail, and ask them to check your draft for technical accuracy

Note that sometimes, the contact people are unresponsive. Try to do your best, but if nobody gets back to you, it's not the end of the world.

Once you're done with the above, make sure to either commit the relnote to an appropriate section of the Release Notes book, or, if you're not familiar with Git, DocBook, or whatever else, just add it to this issue as a comment and let pbokoc[1] know that you're done with this one and you'd like the note included. Be sure to do this at least one day before the final release (so the limit is July 10 according to the current schedule). Also make sure to do this even for relnotes that haven't been checked by the change owner.


[0] You can do that by asking the change owner listed on the wiki page; alternatively you can infer it by checking the tracker bug (linked in Wiki) in Bugzilla and looking at its status; see bug comments for details. Ask someone on the mailing list or on IRC if you're not sure.
[1] In #fedora-docs on FreeNode (UTC+1 timezone, online mostly during the day on weekdays), or pbokoc@redhat.com if you can't get a hold of me on IRC.


@jjelen is there anythong else you want noted?

From the change:

Fedora 26 is not shipping Coolkey PKCS#11 module in NSS database by default. Instead, there will be OpenSC PKCS#11 module, which supports more different Smart Cards. Coolkey package will be removed in Fedora 27. If other applications were using Coolkey, they should be able to switch to OpenSC.

In case you still need Coolkey in the NSS DB, you can add it manually using modutil -dbdir /etc/pki/nssdb -add "CoolKey PKCS #11 Module (manual)" -libfile libcoolkeypk11.so -force (the different name is used to prevent automatic removals when updating coolkey package).

This looks good to me. We can also add that soon (during F26 cycle) there will be fully-featured 0.17.0 update with all the tested features and cards that should serve as a complete replacement of Coolkey.

Metadata Update from @sclark:
- Issue tagged with: stubbed

6 years ago

Metadata Update from @sclark:
- Issue assigned to sclark

6 years ago

Thank you @jjelen. I have created an entry in the Release Notes using the wording supplied above (Commit 40016e0).

Metadata Update from @sclark:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

6 years ago

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