Hi,
If we are changing the meaning of "USA_RESIDENT", could we replace it by
something else completely. I know that the USA are the center of the
universe ;-), but...
It seems to me that a things progress, the crypto regulation gets more
complicated everyday. Why not have a "CRYPTO_COUNTRY" variable that could be
set to "USA" "FRANCE" "CANADA" or "other" based where you live and weither
special consideration must be taken relative to the crypto code ?
Then as part of the build process, automatically create specific variables
for RSA or other stuff as they show up:
CRYPTO_RSA="RSAref" or CRYPTO_RSA="rsa" or CRYPTO_RSA="none". This can be
done by a little bit of shell script easily.
The other thing that could be set based on the CRYPTO_COUNTRY code is where
to get the FreeBSD crypto related source from.
Finally, the current "USA_RESIDENT" variable can then be generated
automatically and with good confidence that it is set to a correct value
(for the ports or source that still relies on that).
OK, it may be overkill for what we need now. So if it looks too much like a
bad idea, kill it now.
Patrick.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: list.freebsd.current
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: Mandating USA_RESIDENT
>
>
> On 18 Jan 2000 03:03:09 PST, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
>
> > Maybe it's better to make it an error to not specify it (yes, killing
> > "make world" and stuff, that's what UPDATING is for).
>
> There's no better time for doing so than prior to 4.0-RELEASE. :-)
>
> Does sysinstall set this one? If not, it should. Then we can stop
> worrying about it. :-)
>
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
>
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