Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:46:06 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenSSL from Ports Message-ID: <1343673966.1101.98.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <5016D443.9030105@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <5016CCBB.30603@beatsnet.com> <5016D443.9030105@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 20:36 +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Am 07/30/12 20:04, schrieb Beat Siegenthaler:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Until today, when I was asked what WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes should do.. i
> > was obviously wrong:
> > I think whole openssl should be replaced, but :
> >
> > [mym:~] # which openssl
> > /usr/bin/openssl
> > [mym:~] # openssl version
> > OpenSSL 0.9.8x 10 May 2012
> >
> > there IS a 1.0.1 version but it is not found whit which or whereis:
> >
> > [mym:~] # /usr/local/bin/openssl version
> > OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012
> >
> > Maybe I simply miss some shell basics?
> > Regards, Beat
> >
>
>
> Hello.
>
> I guess you need to ensure that the path /usr/local/bin is searched
> BEFORE /usr/bin. If you're using sh(1) as the standard shell of yours,
> you should ensure this by using something like the following in .profile
> (or .cshrc, if csh(1)):
>
> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:${PATH}; export PATH
>
> for sh(1) or for csh(1)
>
> set path = ( /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin $path )
>
> Although I use csh(1) as the login shell, I've also set ~/.profile with
> the propper PATH settings.
>
> Since I run FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT, I have already OpenSSL 1.0.1c. I
> tested which(1) and whereis(1) on the command lpr(1), which is in my
> case provided by the FreeBSD base system and located in /usr/bin/lpr,
> AND by the port print/cups-base by the CUPS printing system. Luckily,
> since I adjusted the search paths that way, that /usr/local/bin is
> searched BEFORE /usr/bin, lpr(1) is found first in /usr/local/bin:
>
> ohartmann@thor: [~] which lpr
> /usr/local/bin/lpr
>
>
> But when using whereis(1), the result is the undesired:
>
> ohartmann@thor: [~] whereis lpr
> lpr: /usr/bin/lpr /usr/local/man/man1/lpr.1.gz /usr/src/usr.sbin/lpr
>
>
> The manpage of whereis(1) states, that the $PATH environment variable is
> searched - but this isn't obviously the case, since the shell's PATH
> environment variable points to the right lpr(1) in the first place while
> whereis(1) does ignore it.
> This behaviour is also identical on boxes which run 24/7 with periodic
> scripts enabled, updating the locate(1) database.
>
> Am I missing something, too?
The whereis(1) manpage says that the value of $PATH is *appended* to the
standard places it searches, so it still finds the base system version
of something before any ports-provided version in /usr/local regardless
of PATH.
-- Ian
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