Re: solaris files

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:12:26PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 21:47 +0200, William Wanders wrote:
> > During the regular "make install" phase opensc.conf doesn't seems
> > to get installed in the configured "sysconfdir" directory. As an
> > opensc.conf wasn't required earlier I assumed this was intended
> > behaviour. Or should the opensc.conf have been installed during
> > the installation phase?
> 
> Lets say: we don't want to overwrite an already existing file.
> so for now the user needs to copy it manualy (and I hope he thinks
> before cut&pasting a copy command). The code could be changed
> to copy it if it does not exist, or to copy it to .new or so
> if it already does exist.
> 
> but personally I still prefer:
>  - not install it in the source code (only document the need to do that)
What about installing it something like opensc.conf.sample? This would
insure the installation of an up-to-date sample configuration file
without overwriting a possibly active configuration?

>  - let distributions handle it, they know best how to deal with it.
>  - let the user handle it, who knows what they want better than any
>    distribution or software author.
> > The main reason I added a default configuration was to give precedence
> > to the openct drivers above the PCSC shim driver for the Sun internal
> > smartcard readers on Sun blades/rays. Because I use the internal
> > smartcard reader of my Sun blade for Solaris' native smartcard
> > authentication and hotdesking this seemed a more sensible default
> > for Solaris use.
> 
> ah, ok. so could you look at the lastest opensc.conf.in and tell
> me which changes you need for solaris? we can either merge those
> changes into the default config file, or modify the file in solaris/
> so it is the default config file plus those changes. (or maybe
> we can use sed to get a solaris specific config file from the
> default one).
Activating "reader_drivers = openct, pcsc, ctapi;" should be
sufficient to lower the preference of the pcsc shim driver for
a possible internal smartcard reader.

William.