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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2015-08-11 13:38:54 +0200
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2015-08-12 18:01:01 +0200
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sign-file: Document dependency on OpenSSL devel libraries
The revised sign-file program is no longer a script that wraps the openssl program, but now rather a program that makes use of OpenSSL's crypto library. This means that to build the sign-file program, the kernel build process now has a dependency on the OpenSSL development packages in addition to OpenSSL itself. Document this in Kconfig and in module-signing.txt. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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@@ -111,6 +111,9 @@ This has a number of options available:
additional certificates which will be included in the system keyring by
default.
+Note that enabling module signing adds a dependency on the OpenSSL devel
+packages to the kernel build processes for the tool that does the signing.
+
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GENERATING SIGNING KEYS