From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 7 5:33:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B1DE37B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 05:33:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D028F43E3B for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 05:33:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from dialup-209.245.134.86.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.134.86] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17cPzx-0006vu-00; Wed, 07 Aug 2002 05:33:10 -0700 Message-ID: <3D511062.51F6EBE6@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 05:19:46 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Trulsson Cc: Mark Murray , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenSSL vs. -lmd References: <3D4A43DB.5DE70508@mindspring.com> <200208070736.g777a11p003654@grimreaper.grondar.org> <3D50E590.66BCE6B6@mindspring.com> <20020807112316.GA65008@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Erik Trulsson wrote: > > I would argue that this is the result of being actively maintained > > by a third party. > > I believe it was more due to the fact that Perl's build system and > FreeBSD's build system did not work well together. This FreeBSD's problem; Perl comes from a vendor. > > I'd also argue that the base system version would be 0.9.6e > > right now, of maintenance was as trivial as you imply that it > > is. > > Since the base system version is 0.9.6e right now, I guess maintenance > of OpenSSl isn't too hard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Revision 1.1.1.1.2.2 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Wed Jul 4 23:19:08 2001 UTC (13 months ago) by kris Branch: RELENG_4 CVS Tags: RELENG_4_6_BP, RELENG_4_6_1_RELEASE, RELENG_4_6_0_RELEASE, RELENG_4_5_BP, RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE, RELENG_4_4_BP, RELENG_4_4_0_RELEASE Branch point for: RELENG_4_6, RELENG_4_5, RELENG_4_4 Changes since 1.1.1.1.2.1: +962 -5 lines Diff to previous 1.1.1.1.2.1 (colored) to branchpoint 1.1.1.1 (colored) MFC: Update to OpenSSL 0.9.6a ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It's not on a CDROM, it's not a -RELEASE... it doesn't exist. The current version is 0.9.6a, even though at the time of the 4.6-RELEASE version going golden, that was an old version. Further, as part of the base system, it's not upgradeable for sites with a policy on the use of developement code. Yes I understand that only 7 days ago it was updated in -SECURITY (RELENG_4_6). The versions through 0.9.6e were brought in recently; before that, it was at 0.9.6c for about six months (see rev 1.1.1.7). d became available in April. http://www.openssl.org/news/ The point is, even Iif I thought OpenSSL was "the bestest thing ever", there is a *lag* on vendor updates vs. FreeBSD use of code that comes from a third party vendor. In such cases, it's almost always best to get the code from the vendor directly, and this is not well supported. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message