Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-python/cryptography to use rust, effectively killing alpha, hppa, ia64, m68k, s390
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 23:11:18
Message-Id: 20210210231113.14505.qmail@stuge.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-python/cryptography to use rust, effectively killing alpha, hppa, ia64, m68k, s390 by Mike Gilbert
1 Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > > > The first big blocker we're going to hit is trustme [3] package that
3 > > > relies on cryptography API pretty heavily to generate TLS certs for
4 > > > testing.
5 > >
6 > > For which testing? Could it be changed to generate certs differently?
7 >
8 > He is probably referring to the test suite in dev-python/urllib3,
9 > which uses the python "trustme" package in several places.
10 >
11 > https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/search?q=trustme
12 >
13 > Someone would need to convince the urllib3 developers to use something
14 > else to manage certificates in their unit tests.
15
16 Ah - non-Gentoo packages - thanks, I understand.
17
18 The trustme API isn't very large, so it seems doable to create a
19 different implementation of it without rust dependencies, add
20 virtual/trustme and be done?
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23 //Peter