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Mbed-TLS / mbedtls

An open source, portable, easy to use, readable and flexible TLS library, and reference implementation of the PSA Cryptography API. Releases are on a varying cadence, typically around 3 - 6 months between releases.
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How about install hello as hello.mbedtls #8432

Open sandy-lcq opened 11 months ago

sandy-lcq commented 11 months ago

Hi, Dear maintainers

As mbedtls installs this rather generically-named /usr/bin/hello binary, it may conflicts with others also provide this, eg: lmbench. How about just install it as hello.mbedtls. If this is accepted, I can also send a patch for this.

Thanks

gilles-peskine-arm commented 11 months ago

I agree that we shouldn't install programs with such generic names.

Actually, we shouldn't install programs like hello.c that are only useful as code samples or tests.

There's at least one program that has a generic name but can be of interest to some people:: strerror — useful to diagnose error codes reported by programs or seen in debug logs. I guess we should install it as mbedtls-strerror.

dueringa commented 5 days ago

As part of a buildroot patch, I actually suggested installing the test programs to a subdirectory (/usr/bin/mbedtls/), which has the disadvantage it's not in the PATH anymore...

Maybe as an alternative, under Debian, test/example programs usually get installed to e.g. /usr/share/<name>/example, albeit for source code, not binaries, from what I can think of right now. (Probably also awkward to do with CMake?).

Giving the programs a prefix mbedtls_ (or suffix, .mbedtls) also sounds sensible.