Re: [PATCH] gnu: openldap: Use gnutls.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 12:21:10AM +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> The following patch does what the title says. The link of the bug
>> <http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Incoming?id=7430;page=17> is no
>> longer accessible, so I assume the bug is fixd since I cannot find it on
>> the internet. In addition, I have checked debian's version, which is
>> slightly older (2.4.42), which also uses gnutls. So I think we are safe
>> here. Please object if there is a problem!
>> 
>> Please note that openldap is an input for curl, so I guess it is causing
>> the openssl dependency problem for octave I mentioned earlier. I haven't
>> test to build octave with curl though, which takes a while.
>> 
>
> I built it out. With this patch, octave will build with curl and
> cyrus-sasl added as inputs, and will retain references to gnutls and
> cyrus-sasl, as checked with `guix gc --references /gnu/store/...octave'

So I think this patch can be safely applied, at least in core-updates
due to the large number of rebuilds.

Efraim, could you take care of it?

Thanks!

Ludo’.