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Date:      Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:04:00 -0400
From:      Tom Uffner <tom@uffner.com>
To:        dinoex@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Upgrading Base System openssl
Message-ID:  <4FF34220.6070201@uffner.com>

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One of my clients needs to upgrade OpenSSL on their FreeBSD 8.3
systems to the latest version. This is easily accomplished using
the port. However:

They do not want a 2nd installation of OponSSL under /usr/local,
they want to totally replace the existing base system version.

There are some ports such as mail/sendmail that work that way, and
others such as security/openssh-portable that have a config option
[OVERWRITE_BASE] for this purpose.

Is there a reason why the OpenSSL port does not have the ability
to replace the base system version? is there an obvious way to do
this that i am missing?

and finally, if i were to submit patches adding an OVERWRITE_BASE
option to the port, would someone be willing to commit them?

thanks,

tom



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