variants the second ...

Peter Danecek Peter.Danecek at bo.ingv.it
Thu Oct 3 11:27:33 PDT 2013


I reply to this on my own!

On Oct 3, 2013, at 20:22 , Peter Danecek <Peter.Danecek at bo.ingv.it> wrote:

> 
> Okay, I hope that's it then with variants.
> 
> I have one variant (+gsi for GSI authentication) I do not want to make default. However, if this is activated, I would like to an other variant to come with it, ( i.e. +ca-bundle, a bundle with CA certificates), so that the user would get a working environment. To achieve this I could use the requires option. 
> 
> Now I could imagine, however that user would like manage his CAs in an individual way (using a different set of certificates, allow only a small subset, etc.) so it should be possible to disable the ca-bundle. 
> 
> I see no way to achieve this. Something like +gsi -ca-bundle would still yield +gsi +ca-bundle (due to the requires option). And updating default_variants would not work either, as this needs to be evaluated in and earlier stage, right?

This second possibility seems actually to work. I just need to change the name ca-bundle to something else.



> 
> Any tips how to deal with this?
> ~petr
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