From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 5 9: 8:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F63737B401; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:08:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from oneplusone.ch (oneplusone.ch [212.55.208.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 794B743F85; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:08:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ast@marabu.ch) Received: from oneplusone.ch (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oneplusone.ch (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h25H83Rc001603; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:08:03 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ast@marabu.ch) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by oneplusone.ch (8.12.6/8.12.3/Submit) with UUCP id h25H82q6001602; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:08:02 +0100 (MET) Received: from marabu.marabu.ch (marabu.marabu.ch [192.168.21.3]) by marabu.ch (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h25H0HF75986; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:00:17 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ast@marabu.ch) Received: by marabu.marabu.ch (8.7.5/20001028-ast-8.3) id SAA06561; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:00:15 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200303051700.SAA06561@marabu.marabu.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v124.8483.6) Content-Type: text/plain X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 2.0b6) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.124.8483.6) From: Adrian Steinmann Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:00:13 +0100 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plea for base system trim Cc: subscriber@insignia.com, "Jacques A. Vidrine" X-Organization: Webgroup Consulting AG, Apollostrasse 21, 8032 Zurich X-Phone-Numbers: Switzerland, Tel +41 1 380 30 83 Fax +41 1 380 30 85 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I use this command in my build script to force apache13+modssl to use the openssl in base. # Use base openssl (OpenSSL 0.9.7a as of Feb 19 2003) cd /usr/ports/www/apache13-modssl cp Makefile Makefile- sed -ie 's/^\.include.*Makefile\.ssl.*$/OPENSSLBASE=\/usr/' Makefile- >Makefile You wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:54:13AM -0000, Subscriber wrote: > Having just done two rebuilds for recent OpenSSL and sendmail > vulnerabilities, I was surprised to discover that building the port > of apache13-modssl required the build of a port version of > OpenSSL when I had the most updated (4.7) base system with > OpenSSL in it!. I hate having two versions installed; it makes me > fear that there will be problems caused by the wrong version being > used. You are right to hate having two versions installed --- it is pointless in most cases. Please complain to the apache+mod_ssl and openssl port maintainers. It sounds to me like they are doing something very wrong. Cheers, - -- Jacques A. Vidrine http://www.celabo.org/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se Adrian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message