Shibboleth Developers

["Cantor, Scott E." <>]

On 5/20/11 8:01 AM, "Peter Schober" 
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 wrote:
>He mentioned that they installed the openssl-linked libcurl library
>(as provided by the project as a replacement for the nss-linked
>libcurl in RHEL6) seperately (via cfengine) to some other place in the
>filesystem and referenced it via LD_PRELOAD in the rc.d script for
>shibd.
>(Making the rc.d script then source /etc/sysconfig/shibd where this
>could be configured cleanly would be a further and trivial improvement.)

That's a cool idea.

>This way the project could still provide a packaged version of
>libcurl-openssl (and properly depend on it from the shibboleth
>package) but would neither put any files in /usr/lib[64] nor
>rpm-replace/provide/conflict the standard libcurl package -- so it
>could be installed in parallel.

That's the trick. The main point is, I would have to choose, not the
deployer (since the RPM can't take any input).

So what would be an acceptable location? /usr/local?

-- Scott