[openssl-project] platforms

[Richard Levitte]

In message <20180109202908.GA6587 at roeckx.be> on Tue, 9 Jan 2018 21:29:09 +0100, Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> said:

kurt> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 12:37:11PM +0100, Richard Levitte wrote:
kurt> > +Naming conventions for config files
kurt> > +===================================
kurt> > +
kurt> > +Config files (*.conf) are named {nn}-{name}.conf, where {nn} is a two
kurt> > +digit number and {name} is an indicator of what kind of configuration
kurt> > +can be expected in the file.  The convention for {name} may be refined
kurt> > +for some number groups.
kurt> > +
kurt> > +The number {nn} is somewhat loosely grouped as follows:
kurt> > +
kurt> > +00-09  Templates
kurt> > +10-19  Primary platforms (*)
kurt> > +20-49  Secondary platforms (*)
kurt> > +50-69  Community provided platforms (*)
kurt> > +70-88  Unknown platforms (*)
kurt> > +89     Deprecated platforms (*)
kurt> > +90-99  Personal configs (**)
kurt> 
kurt> In Debian I use the attached patch. It's an easy way for me to
kurt> override the defaults and be follow the Debian policy. Is that
kurt> something that would fall under the community provided?

I would say that these are packager private configs rather than
something the community at large would benefit from, at least
directly.

Frankly, I think you can expect an answer along the same lines as you
could expect from any upstream project that you'd ask "hey, wanna take
care of debian/ for us?"...

kurt> I'm wondering if there is a reason for the number range. I assume
kurt> higher numbers can include lower ones?

Nope.  Those numbers are for human eyes only, they are not in any way
an attempt to order things for computation.  All of the files are read
by Configure, and the the attributes used are resolved by following
the chain of inherit_from, starting with the name given on the
Configure command line.  Those files could be read backwards and the
result would still be the same.

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Richard Levitte         levitte at openssl.org
OpenSSL Project         http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/