Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:26:12 -0500 From: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" <patrick@mindstep.com> To: "Sheldon Hearn" <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mandating USA_RESIDENT Message-ID: <01fa01bf61d5$7162c550$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> References: <vqc7lh77ic2.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <11376.948200498@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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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 <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> 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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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