--On Tuesday, February 07, 2017 2:33 PM -0800 Alice Wonder alice@domblogger.net wrote:
What I mean is this - my LibreSSL package installs in /usr and not in /opt and that is intentional, so that it is not possible to have both opennsl-devel and libressl-devel installed at the same time, since they both are the same API.
That's the very problem that Software Collections endeavors to solve. If you install a non-standard package that conflicts with OS defaults, install it as a collection so that end users can choose whether to use the enhancement or the default, on a per-session basis.
But if LibreSSL was in /opt then RPM would have no problem having both libressl-devel and openssl-devel installed at the same time, and the build of PHP could potentially result in mixed implementation of the OpenSSL API - e.g. PHP is linked against LibreSSL but also is linked against Net-SNMP which is linked against OpenSSL - so that the dynamic loader then loads two shared libraries that provide the same API.
Does Net-SNMP expose the libraries and API it depend on? Does the loader only link on API signature or does it also look at the library name? Does Net-SNMP fail if it was built against OpenSSL but is loaded with LibreSSL?
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