From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 24 06:02:41 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9FB016A421 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:02:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46EC013C4B3 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:02:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l9O62YgS077055; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:02:35 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <471EDFF9.9070205@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:02:33 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071019) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: White Hat References: <140449.26446.qm@web34409.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <140449.26446.qm@web34409.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:02:35 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4581/Wed Oct 24 03:50:45 2007 on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions Subject: Re: Using OpenSSL from ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:02:41 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 White Hat wrote: > Is there any real advantage to installing 'openssl' > from ports rather than using the version installed in > the base system? Other than the fact that the port > version is slightly newer, is there any other major > difference? For RELENG_6 and earlier, you will need the ports version of openssl in order to use rsa-sha256. Some ported software needs that (eg. mail/dkim-milter). Otherwise there isn't any great advantage either way. RELENG_7 and above are close to up-to-date already (version 0.9.8e rather than 0.9.8f) and support all the latest ciphers. > Also, if I did install the port version, how would I > insure that applications would use it as opposed to to > the version in the base system? Put: WITH_OPENSSL_PORT= yes into /etc/make.conf Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHHt/58Mjk52CukIwRCNdOAJ9SOnjo27xBh9i0mUglDx465gvSDACeMrnx URkoYyIavOWzDkXNYvBj/UM= =qPbX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----