[gobolinux-users] python with SSL

[Isaac Dupree]

Carlo Calica wrote:
> On 8/14/07, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net> wrote:
>> hisham.hm at gmail.com wrote:
>>> On 8/14/07, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net> wrote:
>>>> OpenSSL isn't listed in Dependencies of Python, however, Python can use
>>>> it (optionally) to add SSL support, which I needed (I was using official
>>>> from-ChrootCompile binary). I used Compile (and upgraded to python
>>>> 2.5.1), and now I have that support.  Should I make a new recipe with
>>>> OpenSSL added to Dependencies (with a comment that it's optional)?
>>> OpenSSL is already in the set of base dependencies (for wget), isn't
>>> it? In that case I'd say it's fine.
>> I had some Python 2.5 installed on my system that wasn't installed from
>> source (at least, it wasn't in /Files/Compile/Sources, which I haven't
>> emptied), and that python _didn't_ support SSL.  Maybe I'm wrong about
>> where it came from...
>>
> 
> I think Hisham's point was OpenSSL is in a base package list.  So,
> adding it as a dep for python (also in base) wouldn't add any
> additional packages to base.  ChrootCompile only includes deps listed
> in Dependencies so the binary package doesn't include SSL support.
> 
> In a nutshell, yes add OpenSSL as a dep to Python.

Oh. Whoops! Interpreted that the wrong way 'round!

Thanks,
Isaac