Hello Paul, On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Paul Howarth <p...@city-fan.org> wrote:
> Hi Dennis, > > On 22/11/15 15:28, Denis Fateyev wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Paul Howarth <p...@city-fan.org> wrote: >> >> >>> As a data point of interest, I unbundled libtomcrypt from python-crypto >>> when it became possible: >>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1087557 >>> >>> Paul. >>> >>> >> Thanks for the answer. Under these circumstances I should consider to >> unbundle it too. >> >> By the way, the last official "libtomcrypt" release happened more than 5 >> years ago. There was no new official release since that and it's a bit of >> problem due a lot of historical code and changes were made after that >> (hundreds of commits). I'll try to contact libtom people on Github, maybe >> they will bother to prepare a new release. >> > > Did you make any progress with the perl-CryptX packaging? It has now > become a dependency of perl-Net-SSH-Perl, so I'd like to see it in Fedora. > Not really, since I had to unbundle "libtomcrypt" and "libtommath" first as mentioned above, and it takes some time which I don't have right now. CryptX won't go well with the "libtomcrypt" packaged in Fedora, since the packaged version is too aged. Before updating "libtomcrypt" we also have to update "libtommath" [1] and "tomsfastmath" [2]. The "libtommath" update has been tested for Fedora pretty well [3] and can be updated easily, but as for other two more work on preparing new versions, testing and packaging is required. Considering all of this, the "proper" unbundled CryptX version cannot be prepared right now, although we can solve dependencies step by step. As for the plans, next month I'm going to start testing "tomsfastmath" in order to help with preparing a new release. After that, the same way with "libtomcrypt", and then CryptX. I talked to Karel, the CryptX's author, and we agreed that a configure switch which allows to use "libtomcrypt" system library would be useful, so in perspective the unbundling process should be even less problematic. Thanks, [1] https://github.com/libtom/libtommath [2] https://github.com/libtom/tomsfastmath [3] https://github.com/libtom/libtommath/issues/35 -- wbr, Denis. -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/perl-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
