ipa-server conflicts with mod_ssl

Joe Orton jorton at redhat.com
Tue May 13 16:44:48 UTC 2008


On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:24:48PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 17:17 +0100, Joe Orton wrote:
> > > So when can I block mod_ssl?
> > 
> > Well technically never, since it's a subpackage of httpd not a source 
> > package, but, the answer is: when mod_nss is supported upstream at the 
> > ASF, rather than being based on a fork of an old copy of mod_ssl.
> 
> This is what I love about Fedora.  Our own initiatives can't be agreed
> upon by our own developers.

I'm not sure that anybody would disagree that the above is the right 
end-goal; "do work upstream" has always been key to the crypto 
consolidation project AFAIK.

joe




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