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Date:      Sun, 31 May 2015 17:21:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   avoiding base openssl when building ports
Message-ID:  <201506010138.t511cp2P088983@gw.catspoiler.org>

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After all the noise about base openssl vs. ports openssl on this list a
couple of weeks ago, I bit the bullet and tossed WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes
in poudriere.d/*-make.conf and kicked off a poudriere run.  It chugged
for quite a while and rebuilt lots of ports.  After it was done, I ran
pkg upgrade and was dismayed when I discovered that ldd told me that
quite a few executables were linked to openssl in base.

The big culprit turned out to be ftp/curl.  Even though
WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes caused it to add the openssl port as a build and
run dependency, it was silently getting linked to openssl from base. The
cause of that problem is that the default GSSAPI_BASE option adds
-L/usr/lib near the start of LDFLAGS, so the linker finds the base
openssl libraries instead of the ones from the port.  I worked around
that problem by switching to GSSAPI_NONE, though I tested that the other
GSSAPI_* options also work correctly.  There is a sanity check in the
Makefile that attempts to catch this conflict, but it does not work
correctly.  See
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200555>.

After another poudriere run, which rebuilt the curl package and
everything that depended on it, things were looking much better.  Of my
~1300 installed ports, I only found two other problematic ports:
  www/links1 <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200557>;
and
  security/nmap
  <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200558>;

The only remaining port that links to openssl in base is pkg, which I
think is mandatory for chicken vs. egg reasons.

I'm currently running with these updated ports and haven't run into any
problems.



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