Openssl-problem with Epoptes

[Stéphane Graber]

On 02/08/2012 12:29 AM, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> Στις 07-02-2012, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 23:52 +0200, ο/η Asmo Koskinen
> έγραψε:
>> root at ubuntu:/# epoptes-client -c
>> /usr/sbin/epoptes-client: line 132: openssl: command not found
>
> $ apt-cache show epoptes-client | grep ^Recommends:
> Recommends: openssl, python-gtk2, xterm, x11vnc, zenity
>
> Unfortunately LTSP thin client chroots in Ubuntu have apt configured to
> not install Recommended packages.
> On the other hand, the epoptes-client package contains a plugin that
> copies (with cp) the server certificate to the chroot automatically.
> And, the sysadmin can also use cp to manually copy the certificate
> instead of installing openssl:
>    cp /etc/epoptes/server.crt /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/epoptes/
> And finally, the openssl executable isn't needed by epoptes-client later
> on at all, only as a helper to fetch the certificate... i.e. it's not
> really a dependency.
>
> So I'm not sure how to handle this... possible solutions are:
>   1) If LTSP in Ubuntu was modified to install recommended packages,
>      like in Debian,

Won't happen in 12.04 at least, my guess is that we'd need to promote a 
lot of packages to main if we were to do that.

>   2) If epoptes-client depended on openssl, instead of recommending it,
>   3) If the wiki page mentioned using `cp` on Ubuntu thin clients
>      instead of `epoptes-client -c`.

Couldn't you have "epoptes-client -c" print an informative message 
instead of the "command not found"? Either suggesting to install openssl 
or pointing to how to do it without openssl?


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Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
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