Re: switching libcurl back to OpenSSL and providing the libcurl-minimal subpackage

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On Wednesday, April 05, 2017 17:09:34 Jan Kurik wrote:
> Might not be directly related, but just for a reference - one of the
> F26 Changes (currently deferred to F27) is doing the same for
> OpenLDAP: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OpenLDAPwithOpenSSL

I have prepared a draft of the change proposal.  Could you please have a look?

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

Thanks in advance!

Kamil

> Regards,
> Jan
> 
> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > On 04/05/2017 09:59 AM, Colin Walters wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017, at 09:52 AM, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> >>> In order to make even smaller Fedora base images, it was proposed to
> >>> switch
> >>> libcurl back to OpenSSL.  The Fedora Crypto Consolidation project, which
> >>> motivated the switch of libcurl from OpenSSL to NSS ten years ago, is
> >>> now
> >>> deprecated and libcurl is the only package that pulls NSS as its
> >>> dependency
> >>> into the Fedora base image.  Hence, by switching libcurl back to
> >>> OpenSSL, we could create Fedora base image that contains fewer crypto
> >>> libraries inside.>> 
> >> Makes sense to me - from the Atomic Host perspective, we are switching
> >> ostree to use libcurl, since libdnf already does (and librepo hard
> >> depends
> >> on OpenSSL, even though libcurl used NSS).
> >> 
> >>> Additional proposal that would help to reduce the size of base image is
> >>> the
> >>> libcurl-minimal subpackage, which can be installed installed as a
> >>> lightweight replacement of the libcurl package, with smaller size and
> >>> fewer dependencies.>> 
> >> I'm in agreement with this except:
> >> 
> >> # configure minimal build
> >> ...
> >> 
> >>         --without-nghttp2
> >> 
> >> I'd really prefer to keep HTTP2 available by default - it can be
> >> dramatically better.
> > 
> > I'll second this: it looks like libnghttp2 does not pull in any
> > dependencies that wouldn't already be part of any minimal install (just
> > glibc and ld) and its filesystem space is only about 150k uncompressed.
> > 
> > It's probably reasonable to keep this in our minimal set for the HTTP2
> > functionality.
> > 
> > 
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