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Date:      Sun, 6 May 2001 16:39:31 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Doug Young <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Query on SSL / SSLeay
Message-ID:  <20010506163931.A38887@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010507092735.A26110@welearn.com.au>; from sue@welearn.com.au on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:27:36AM %2B1000
References:  <079901c0d5fc$cc7098e0$0300a8c0@oracle> <20010506043221.A17338@xor.obsecurity.org> <001901c0d62a$b34fdd20$0300a8c0@oracle> <20010506150040.B98841@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010506150512.E98841@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010507092735.A26110@welearn.com.au>

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On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:27:36AM +1000, Sue Blake wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 03:05:12PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 03:00:40PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >=20
> > > FreeBSD 4.3 includes a version of OpenSSL 0.9.6, and I just checked
> > > the build and verified that it finds the system version of OpenSSL
> > > correctly.  All you need to do is install that.
> >                                             ^^^^ the system version of
> >                                             OpenSSL, that is.  OpenSSL
> >                                             itself has been in FreeBSD
> >                                             since 4.0
>=20
> Hmmm... have I got this right yet?
>=20
> If you installed the crypto distribution, you've got OpenSSL in the
> base system and therefore the webmin port should install without error.
>=20
> If you haven't installed the crypto distro, then when installing the
> webmin port you will be told that you need to install OpenSSL.
> At this point one might find OpenSSL in the ports and try to install it.
> The OpenSSL port will tell you that it is already installed as part of
> the system, even though it is not (because you didn't install the
> crypto distro).
>=20
> If this is the correct picture, then it would be less confusing if one
> or both error messages indicated that it refers specifically to the
> crypto distribution of the base system.

Something like that.  I haven't checked the exact error messages, so
feel free to submit a PR about it if you think it can be improved.

Kris

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