Ok, thanks very much for your inputs Oliver.
Sharing files is just a far end optimization option but I am a bit
worried about the size of a running (and so growing) multiple CAs
installation. I hope this will be acceptable.

Regards,
Pierre

> Hi Pierre,
> 
> > Ok, I was a bit optimistic!
> This is a good attitude when dealing woth OpenCA ;)
> 
> > I felt reluctant about installing independent-severalMBs-CAs X times but
> > it is the only solution. I do not see clearly how to update/maintain
> > reliably such a configuration though. The good thing is that you end up
> > with a good partitioning for each sub-CA.
> > I think it may be possible to share some bits like the modules folder.
> > What do you reckon?
> 
> At least you should NOT share the etc and the var section, the rest is 
> "read-only" so you can share it using symlinks or mount's.
> It should be possible to use one real tree and just create multiple var 
> and etc dirs inside and adjust the config files - but as there is no 
> central point to do so but about 20 files this is error prone and 
> probably more work than just hacking some subsequent "./configure" with 
> differnet prefixes....
> But as a "make install" will create all necessary stuff and the size of 
> the componentes ist not that much I wont see any advantages of sharing 
> things...
> This will be another opton if you heavily adapt some of the functions...
> 
> Oliver
> 



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