On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Dan Fandrich wrote:

> I'm rearranging my RPMs to split libcurl into its own package, but I haven't
> decided what the best place is for the curl-ca-bundle.crt file. It's
> hard-coded in libcurl so it makes sense for it to be in that package (this
> is what Mandrake does). However, you can't install two different libcurl
> packages without RPM complaining about a duplicate file in that case.

Aren't there any other packages that have the same problem? If so, how do theý
generally solve it?

What about devel packages that have include files etc? What if you install two
of those?

> You could also include it in the curl package, since there will only be one
> of those installed in a system (this is what Debian does). But then
> applications on systems without curl installed won't be able to authenticate
> certificates.

... and that seems wrong, since the ca certs might be useful to any app that
uses libcurl.

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