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Date:      Mon, 7 May 2001 23:58:03 +1000
From:      "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>
To:        "Sue Blake" <sue@welearn.com.au>, "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Query on SSL / SSLeay
Message-ID:  <01ba01c0d6fd$c1dc8ae0$0300a8c0@oracle>
References:  <079901c0d5fc$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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Thank you Sue :)

It might make sense to someone working with it all the time, but its
extremely confusing to those who strike the issue for the first time !!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sue Blake" <sue@welearn.com.au>
To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>;
<freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: Query on SSL / SSLeay


> 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:
> >
> > > 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
>
> Hmmm... have I got this right yet?
>
> If you installed the crypto distribution, you've got OpenSSL in the
> base system and therefore the webmin port should install without error.
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>         -*Sue*-
>
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